Shell Programming and Scripting

hi

$lp_count = 25265531
$num_reads = 25280826

result=`echo "scale=2; $lp_count/$num_reads * 100" | bc`

echo $result

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o/p:

99.00
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desired:

99.93

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plz help me in getting desired o/p.

Code:

echo "scale=2; $lp_count*100/$num_reads" | bc
99.93

thanks i got it. thank you very much for your help