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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) A fixed point basic calculator for DASH. Post 303025587 by Corona688 on Tuesday 6th of November 2018 10:34:41 AM
Old 11-06-2018
My suggestion would be to eliminate these floating point conversions, and just use integer math. For three decimal points you'd do

Code:
SIGN="+"
if [ "$NUM" -lt 0 ]
then
        NUM=$((-NUM))
        SIGN="-"
fi

printf "%s%d.%d" "$SIGN" "$((NUM/100))" "$((NUM%100))"

 

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TRACEROUTE(1)                                                      User Commands                                                     TRACEROUTE(1)

NAME
traceroute - Trace the route to a host SYNOPSIS
traceroute [OPTION...] HOST DESCRIPTION
Print the route packets trace to network host. -f, --first-hop=NUM Set initial hop distance, that is the time-to-live. -g, --gateways=GATES List of gateways for loose source routing. -I, --icmp Use ICMP ECHO as probe. -m, --max-hop=NUM Set maximal hop count (default is 64). -M, --type=METHOD Use METHOD (icmp or udp) for traceroute operations, defaulting to udp. -p, --port=PORT Use destination PORT port (default is 33434). -q, --tries=NUM Send NUM probe packets per hop (default is 3). --resolve-hostnames Resolve hostnames. -t, --tos=NUM Set type of service (TOS) to NUM. -w, --wait=NUM Wait NUM seconds for response (default is 3). -?, --help Give this help list. --usage Give a short usage message. -V, --version Print program version. GNU inetutils 2015-05-15 TRACEROUTE(1)
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