[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now, >that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But >bc spits out 3/4 => 0 and 4/3 => 1. Any Idea how I can change this >behaviour to get the real results? Would save me some more hours...
You can use a command like 'scale=2' to bc to tell it to give you two decimal places for floating-point arithmetic. So: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ bc --quiet scale=2 3/4 .75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
