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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash Decimal Addition using bc Post 302478334 by methyl on Tuesday 7th of December 2010 04:55:40 PM
Old 12-07-2010
A glance at "file.txt" suggests that it needs some preprocessing.

There is a textual heading on line 1.
There are numerous blank lines.

No problem with the numbers. They are consistently to two decimal places.

Because I had no problem reading the file with M$ "notepad" you will be converting the file to unix text file format?
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