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Old 01-04-2012
How to perform floating division in shell script?
I want to perform the below division operation in shell script and round the value.

Code:
val1=6000
val2=5000
res=val1/val2 ----> 1.2---> Round to 2

Please help.
# 2  
Old 01-04-2012
Bad answer. Omit this post.

EDIT:
Did you thank it? Then I will re-write my original post, but it wasn't what you are looking for, it outputs a decimal number, without ceiling.
Code:
$ echo "scale=1; $val1 / $val2" | bc
1.2

Regards,
Birei
Last edited by birei; 01-04-2012 at 10:28 AM..
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Old 01-04-2012
Thank you. How to round of the output to 2 here??
# 4  
Old 01-04-2012
Multiple posts of same type .. Smilie
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...round-awk.html
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...und-value.html
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...f-integer.html
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