Re: OT: EXPR [SOLVED]

["Anthony Capone" <capone cap1 net>]

THANK YOU...that is exactly what I was looking for!!!

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Hughes" <bhughes elevating com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: OT: EXPR


> Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:36:52AM -0500, Anthony Capone
<capone cap1 net> wrote:
> > | I need something that I can call in a script...bc would be kind of
hard to
> > | do, I think....
> >
> > You think wrong:
> >
> >         foo=`echo "2 / 3" | bc`
> >
>
> foo=`echo "scale = 5; 2 / 3" | bc`
>
> Worked better for me.  This is pretty cool stuff.  I never heard of bc
> before.
>
> Bret
>
>
>
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