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Joachim Ansorg edited this page Nov 12, 2021 · 2 revisions

(( )) doesn't support decimals. Use bc or awk.

Bash arithmetic conditional evaluation can only be performed on integers. More detail: Bash has limited data types which include integer, but everything is effectively untyped.

Suggested workarounds to this constraint use bc or awk, here are some examples.

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