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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Comparing Floats in a /bin/sh Script 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:08:44 -0400."
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:40:42 +0200
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:08:44 -0400, "Crist J. Clark" wrote:

> I want to compare two floating point numbers in a /bin/sh script. I
> cannot seem to find an easy way to do so. The best I've come up with
> is,

/bin/sh is not suited to floating point manipulation of any kind.  You're
going to save yourself a lot of pain using one of the more feature-rich
languages like perl.

And trust me, I'm not a perl push-over.  If I can do it using /bin/sh
instead of perl without breaking my own fingers, I will. :-)

Obviously, you'd use whatever high level scripting language you're most
comfortable.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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