bourne shell query

[Jeff Beadles]

scott at tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) writes:

>As a side question, does ANYONE have any bourne shell routines which do
>math... reasonably effeciently?  (For numbers > 1000?)

Well, I use expr.  For example:

a=123456
b=123

c=`expr $a - $b`

d=`expr $a \* $b`

echo "c = $c"
echo "d = $d"

Note, that the '*' MUST be quoted, as the shell will expand it.

"Shell qouting --  Know it, live it, be it.  -Jeff"    :-)

	-Jeff
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