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Floating point math in bash without bc (using awk)
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Uses awk to do the comparison so it can handle floating point numbers | |
| awke() | |
| { | |
| echo "$1 $3" | awk '{ print ($1 '"$2"' $2) }' | |
| } | |
| awke '3.124' '*' '6' |
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