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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing decimal numbers between 0 and 1 Post 302642889 by itsvikas on Friday 18th of May 2012 06:44:22 AM
Old 05-18-2012
Comparing decimal numbers between 0 and 1

For numbers between 0 and 1 the below logic is not working.
Output of above shall be "correct" but its echoing "incorrect".Kindly suggest

Code:
a=.1
if [ $a -gt .01 ] 
then 
echo correct
else echo incorrect
fi

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