On Wednesday 08,January,2014 01:36 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hi lina, > > lina wrote: >> How can I print the 0.05, 0.10 ... 1.0 out, with the step of 0.05 >> >> Thanks ahead for your suggestions, > > First please do not hijack threads. You replied to Chris Down's > message responding to DanielB about "For loop prints two $values > instead of one" and then changed the subject but your message isn't > about anything to do with that thread. If you want to start a new > thread like you did here please compose a new message. Please don't > reply to an existing thread to start a new conversation.
Hi Bob, my fault, I didn't realize this was a wrong way to start a new conversation, by renaming the Subject and deleted everything inside. How could they figure out it is from that thread? > > Second is that this is simply a question and not a bug report. > Questions should go to the help-b...@gnu.org mailing list. > >> How can I print the 0.05, 0.10 ... 1.0 out, with the step of 0.05 > > As to your question there are many ways to solve the problem. I would > be inclined to use the GNU seq command. Very helpful, thanks, > > $ seq 0.05 0.05 1.0 > 0.05 > 0.10 > 0.15 > 0.20 > 0.25 > 0.30 > 0.35 > 0.40 > 0.45 > 0.50 > 0.55 > 0.60 > 0.65 > 0.70 > 0.75 > 0.80 > 0.85 > 0.90 > 0.95 > 1.00 > > However seq is somewhat of a troubled command. It does math with > floating point and sometimes suffers from the same problems as > anything that does compter based floating point math with various > approximation and rounding errors. You must be careful concerning it > or odd errors will occur. > > A related question about for loops in bash is discussed in this FAQ > entry. It isn't exactly your case but you might be interested in > reading about the examples it provides. > > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/018 > > I doubt just printing out these numbers were really your question. If > you wrote a message to help-b...@gnu.org and described your task in > more detail there are many people who would be happy to help you use > bash effectively. > > Bob >
