On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, frenco wrote:
I have a variable that is a float value.
When I print it with the echo command i get:
0.495959
...
I think it's because my variable have the ^M character (not printed
with the echo command)
You might try
echo "[$the_variable_name]"
The quoting is significant. If it does have a carriage return like
you think, then it will probably display like
].495959
That is, the ^M will probably make it go back to the start of the
line, and characters after it (here, ]) will overwrite what it output
before.
But when I try to make an operation on that value with the bc
command (I am not sure how to write the bc command).
echo $mean *1000 |bc
...
How can i eliminate this error?
echo $mean *1000 | tr -d '\r' | bc
seems to work. "tr" translates characters, "-d" says that instead of
translating it should just delete the name characters, and '\r' (note:
single quote ', not double quote ") is the ^M character.
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Tim McDaniel
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