Arithmetic calculation on real numbers in Bourne Shell Script
I am begining to learn bourne shell and as a practice I have written a script which when given the purchase price and percentage of discount calculates the savings.
I somehow cannot figure out why my script fails to do arthimatic calculation on real numbers.
Could anyone look at the script and recommend where is the flaw.
Thanks in advance
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i have this assignment.. and i mad this script but there is something wrong with it.. if anyone can tell me.. watz going on... i would appreciate it.. tHnX in advance..
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Hello,
I'm throwing this out there as a novice to the Unix world...I've
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Dear Bourne Shell Expert,
I am trying to change the current working directory from within a Bourne Shell script. Simply enough i thought !
As I am sure you are well aware, Inside the script i echo `pwd` and it seems ok, but the shell spawns another shell to execute this and as such, when my... (10 Replies)
file A
E969K
D223L
E400L
E34L
file B
predicted 3
1 250
251 500
501 1000
The output should be
E969K 501 1000
D223L 1 250
E400L 251 500
E34L 1 250
I tried in this way (1 Reply)
hi there again,
i need to do a simple division with my data with a number of rows. i think i wanted to have a simple output like this one:
col1 col2 col3
val1 val2 val1/val2
valn valm valn/valm
any suggestion is very much appreciated. thanks much. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need a help with arithmetic calculations in my script. I have two variables: a=17; b=1712
I want to perform ($a/$b)*100 with two decimals in the result.
I tried with following:
res=$((100*a/b))
res=`echo "scale=2; $a / $b" | bc`
But I am not getting the decimal values.... (4 Replies)
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I am trying to do an addition to a value stored in a variable...
var1=`grep -n "match" sample.txt|cut -d : -f1`
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I have a file which is formatted as... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I wish to compare the CPU LOAD 1 min with 5mins and 15mins.
If 1 min's CPU LOAd spike 3% compare to 5 mins or 15 mins CPU Load, it is warning.
If 1 min's CPU LOAd spike 5% compare to 5 mins or 15 mins CPU Load, it is critical.
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)