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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Percentage / Multiplication in Shell Script Post 302905061 by Gussifinknottle on Monday 9th of June 2014 11:07:15 AM
Old 06-09-2014
Percentage / Multiplication in Shell Script

Hello,

I am trying to compute the percentage in a script as shown below:

Code:
PerCover=`echo "scale=2 ; 100  \* ($InputCover/$Total)" | bc`

However the PerCover value is blank/null. What do I need to do differently?

Thanks for your input!

~Guss
 

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