From 118b0ca75205bb2b69685c14e78961b011621e47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Voigt <Alexander.Voigt@desy.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:02:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] adding shell functions to obtain minimum/maximum of two
 numbers

---
 test/test.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/test.sh b/test/test.sh
index 7d0bc54f0..60db37bc4 100644
--- a/test/test.sh
+++ b/test/test.sh
@@ -50,3 +50,31 @@ EOF
 
     return $error
 }
+
+# returns minimum of two numbers
+min() {
+    local a=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/[eE]+*/*10^/')
+    local b=$(echo "$2" | sed -e 's/[eE]+*/*10^/')
+    cat <<EOF | bc -l
+define min(i,j) {
+    if (i < j) return i
+    return j
+}
+
+min($a,$b)
+EOF
+}
+
+# returns maximum of two numbers
+max() {
+    local a=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/[eE]+*/*10^/')
+    local b=$(echo "$2" | sed -e 's/[eE]+*/*10^/')
+    cat <<EOF | bc -l
+define max(i,j) {
+    if (i > j) return i
+    return j
+}
+
+max($a,$b)
+EOF
+}