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Old 05-06-2008
Bourne and decimals??

I need to get 15% of the variable exer1 to be added to other exercises

so far, i've got
exer1=$1
aver=`expr $exer \* .15`

but i keep getting an error that an integer value was expected. Is there anyway around this?
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Old 05-06-2008
use the bc program intsead. the shell can only do integer math.
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