BASH question

[M.Lewis]

Andy Green wrote:
> M.Lewis wrote:
> 
>>> No floating point support :-)  But even then, be liberal with spaces
>>>
>>> PERMINUTE=$(( 29 / 432000 ))
> 
>> Thanks Andy, that resolved the error, but returns $PERMINUTE as 0. It 
>> should be something like .00067xxxxx. Is there a way to do that?
> 
> Farm it out to bc
> 
> echo "scale=10 ; 28.95 / 432000" | bc

Thanks again Andy. Is this what you mean?

#!/bin/sh

#PERMINUTE=$(( 29 / 432000 ))
PERMINUTE=$(echo "scale=10; (28.95 / 432000" | bc ))

echo "$PERMINUTE"

This gives me the following error:

./calc2.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
./calc2.sh: line 4: `PERMINUTE=$(echo "scale=10; (28.95 / 432000" | bc ))'

I apparently am not following your meanings exactly.

Thanks,
Mike




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