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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Arithmetic calculations in Shell script Post 302700511 by Corona688 on Thursday 13th of September 2012 01:23:36 PM
Old 09-13-2012
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Originally Posted by karumudi7
How can I avoid script hangup when divide by Zero happens. Validating the variable is the only way? or any otherway in Unix. Actually I need to display 0 when it happens.
Just check. This will turn it into 0/1, which always becomes zero.

Code:
 [ "$b" -eq 0 ] && a=0; [ "$a" -eq 0 ] && b=1

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Seems you Edited, while I am replying.... Smilie
I'm often sneaky like that. Smilie Sorry.
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Actually, I thought scale & bc are for division and thinking to multiply the result with 100. But I am wrong.
I think 'scale' in bc does pretty much what I did in shell -- multiplies an extra bunch, then cheats the decimal point. bc is smart enough to know when it'd end up 1, though, when my shell statement would do silly things like 0.100

Last edited by Corona688; 09-13-2012 at 02:32 PM..
 

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GCOMP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GCOMP(1)

NAME
gcomp - do computations on a graph file. SYNOPSIS
gcomp [ -amilh ][ +variable value .. ][ file .. ] DESCRIPTION
Gcomp reads each graph file in sequence and computes the specified calculations. The type options are as follows: -n Print the name of each curve. -a Print average and standard deviation of each curve. -m Print minimum and maximum for each curve. -i Print Romberg's approximation to the integral of each curve. -l Print the slope, intercept, and correlation coefficient using the least squares method of linear regression. -h Do not print a header in the output. The calculations will be displayed as columns in the order they are specified on the command line. If no files are given, the standard input is read. Variables can be set explicitly with +variable value options. The only truely useful variables for this program are xmin and xmax. They determine boundaries for the calculations. EXAMPLE
To compute the approximate integral of sin(x)/log(x) from 2 to 4: gcomp -i A(x)=sin(x)/log(x); Anpoints=100; xmin=2; xmax=4; ^D AUTHOR
Greg Ward BUGS
Only the y values can be used for computation. SEE ALSO
bgraph(1), dgraph(1), icalc(1), igraph(1) RADIANCE
6/24/98 GCOMP(1)
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