[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a short script for simple text file processing in bash
> (using "<" for input redirection and "read"). I know, there are

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> Now what to do? Are there some functions, which would implement basic
> math with real numbers in bash (add, substract, multiply, divide
> and round would be enough)?
> The idea of writing them myself really scares me...
> 
> Jarry
> 

Lots of way to do math from command line.  Check out

bc

dc

even python (echo "print (10E3-123)/123" | python

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