Re: [Help-bash] floating point arithmetic

[João Eiras]

I have my own little bash script for this use case:

$ cat calc
IFS=""
awk "BEGIN { print (${*:-0}); }" /dev/null

$ calc "2.3-5.4"


On 30 October 2017 at 22:04, Barry Walker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jerry...
>
>> I was told that "bash" does not support floating point arithmetic. I was
>> wondering if there are any plans to change that in future releases?
>
> If you are running CygWin then bc and dc are NOT part of a default install.
> However all *NIX type systems have awk which can do floating point along with
> some mathematical functions...
>
> man awk:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=awk&sektion=1
>
>
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