I am trying to compare 2 float values using if
the foll code does not work
a=1.4
b=1.6
if test $a -gt $b
then
echo "$a is max"
else
echo "$b is max"
fi
does -gt work for floating point numbers, if not how do go about for my requirement? can i use bc ? pls help
thanks in advance... (2 Replies)
Im trying to create a utility that can do unit conversions using a seperate formula file(one which i can add conversions to at a later date). however i'm stuck when it comes to pulling the formulas out of the formula file for use in the script.
heres a rundown of what the script does.
The... (4 Replies)
Hello all
while writing a small script , i got stuck with this simple thing.Hope you guyz can help.
Iam trying to read password
echo"enter password"
read $pwd
now i have to check this
echo"enter password to proceed"
read $pwd
now i have to check both the values of the... (2 Replies)
i have two file and i am comparing both..
in cmp1 ,the content is :
the nu of file is : <some integer value>
in cmp2 ,the content is :
the nu of file is :
so want a script which will take value (2) when cmp1 is compared with cmp2..
i mean cmp cmp1 cmp2 the the output will be
he nu of... (1 Reply)
Hi to all,
I have the following text within inputfile
data1,value1,value2
data1,value3,value2
data1,value5,value6
data2,value1,value2
data2,value3,value4
data3,value1,value2
data3,value3,value4
data4,value1,value2
data4,value3,value4
data4,value5,value6
I would like to... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am stuck with extracting values by combining 2 dynamically extracted values.
The code goes like this
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ID1="abcd"
i=1 #this is a dynamic value and keeps on changing
b="ID" #this is static
now i want the value of ID1 variable.
like echo $b$i
But echo... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to get the value of 'uid' from a line in file f1. For example, in the line below, I need to get the value '150', from the 'anonuid=150' key, and I need to verify that this is a valid uid by checking it against /etc/passwd (i.e) I want to compare this uid, 150 (or more if there are any... (2 Replies)
I have 2 text files say file1.txt and file2.txt . Some of the sample records for file1.txt were shown below:
XXXXX12345XXXXXXX12 3456789YYYYY
XXXXXXXXXX12345XX123457485YYYYY
XX12345XXXXXXXXXX123454658YYYYY
for file2.txt, some of the sample records were shown below:
... (5 Replies)
Hi
Am trying to compare the values of two files..
One is a big file that has many values and the other is a small file..
The big file has all values present in small file..
# cat SmallFile
4456602 22347881
7471282 15859891
8257690 21954701
7078068 18219229
2883826 6094959
100000
... (3 Replies)