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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Condition for decimal numbers Post 302483943 by citaylor on Wednesday 29th of December 2010 04:47:21 AM
Old 12-29-2010
This code will handle any floating point expression correctly.
The "bc" will return 0=false, or 1=true:
Code:
if [ "$(echo $temp \> 0.1 | bc)" -eq 1 ]; then ....

 

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ASNMACRO(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual						       ASNMACRO(1)

NAME
asnmacro - process ASN.1 biological data per Sequin macros SYNOPSIS
asnmacro [-] [-b] [-d] [-e] [-i filename] -m filename [-o filename] [-p path] [-r path] [-s str] [-x str] DESCRIPTION
asnmacro is a command-line tool to run Sequin macros on annotated biological sequence data represented according to NCBI's ASN.1 specifica- tions. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. - Print usage message -b Input is Binary -d Output is binary -e Input is a Seq-Entry -i filename Single input file -m filename Macro file -o filename Single Output file -p path Path to multiple input files -r path Path for Results when processing multiple files -s str Suffix for stripped (output) files -x str Suffix for input files with -p (.sqn by default) AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information. SEE ALSO
Psequin(1). NCBI
2011-09-02 ASNMACRO(1)
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