Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:45:03 +0200 From: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using bc in bash script Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030814183506.01a82ef8@postamt1.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <87d6f89oya.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <001a01c3627e$487d7a10$04fea8c0@moe> <001a01c3627e$487d7a10$04fea8c0@moe>
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At 11:35 14.08.2003 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: >At 2003-08-14T16:08:21Z, "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> writes: > > > Can I refine it to give me something like: .784 seconds? > >Use "bc -l" instead of bc. That should do it. Yes, but not in the context mentioned before: > > > Start_time=`date +%s` # Seconds past midnight at start of script > > > [ do lots of stuff ] > > > End_time=`date +%s` # Seconds past midnight at end of script et=`echo "$end_time - $start_time" | bc -l` Here bc -l will not really help, because date +%s returns whole seconds :-( BTW: %s are seconds since epoch Alexander
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