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01-27-04, 05:51

preetikate preetikate is offline

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Division in Shell Script

Hi,
I need help on getting $1 divided by $2 in a shell script.
How to do that?
Thanks for any suggestions

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01-27-04, 07:35

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use the expr command

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01-27-04, 08:26

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Originally posted by TimoV
use the expr command

'expr' will only perform integer arithmetic. I'd use awk...

echo 3 2 | awk '{print $1/$2}'

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