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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help in division Post 302588951 by pandeesh on Tuesday 10th of January 2012 10:13:26 AM
Old 01-10-2012
Help in division

hi,
The below commands result only the whole number(not giving the decimal values).
Code:
pandeeswaran@ubuntu:~$ echo 1,2,3,4|sed 's/,/\//g'|bc
0
pandeeswaran@ubuntu:~$ echo 1000,2,3|sed 's/,/\//g'|bc
166

How to make it to return the decimal values?

Thanks
 

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NAME
what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses SYNOPSIS
what-patch [options] DESCRIPTION
what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using. what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package. OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for what-patch: -h, --help Display a help message and exit. -v Enable verbose mode. This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional details about the patch system if available. AUTHORS
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