Shell Programming and Scripting

Except /usr/dt/bin/dtksh:

Code:

$ echo $(( 34. /50 * 100 ))
68

Code:

$ echo $(( .035 / 1862 ))
0.000018796992

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Use -l option that causes an arbitrary-precision math library to be predefined:

Code:

$ echo "  .035 / 1862 " | bc -l
.00001879699248120300

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Good to know about dtksh

But I discovered that it is part of CDE, so dtksh will not be available if CDE is not installed.

Yes that is a good point. In my experience CDE used to be installed by default, so it was there unless the administration team had made a conscious choice to uninstall it / not to install it , but it appears it has become optional in HP-UX 11.31, so there CDE would need to be installed first..

friend,

this command is working fine on command prompt with using variable. But while i using variable with same code in in script, it doesnot working.

Thanks,
Jewel

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need help from you all

You need to make sure the script executes with the same shell as the shell you are using to test it with.. What shell are you using and how do you execute your script?