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You can use bc in bash to do maths calculations with decimals. The man pages can be found:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?bc+1

Example Calulation

bc -l <<< "20 / ( 20 + 80) * 100 "
The output looks like:
20.00000000000000000000
-l = --mathlib = Defines the standard math library

Limiting the decimal place

You can then use this with printf to limit the number of decimals shown: \\The example below shows the results to 3 decimal places. You can replace the 3 with what ever value you wish to place

printf "%.3f\n" $(bc -l <<< "20 / ( 20 + 80) * 100 ")

You can also use bc with variables:
bc -l <<< "($used / ( $free + $used) ) * 100 ")

Comparing Decimals with bc

You are able to compare decimal numbers using bc. The output will return 1 or 0 depending on the results. You can then use this with an if statment -le / -ge etc

1.4 '<' 1.3 | bc -l

example= $(echo 1.4 '<' 1.3 | bc -l)
if [ $example-eq 0 ]; then
elif [ $example-eq 1  ]; then
fi

bash_scripting.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/23 07:26 by 127.0.0.1