How to compare floating point number in shell scripting ?

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Nandu

  • Oct 10th, 2007
 

a1=10.50
b1=10.01
if [ $a1 -gt $b1 ]| bc
then
        echo "greater"
else
        echo "lesser"
fi

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abdas

  • Jun 23rd, 2011
 

a=10.50
b=11.01

if [ $a -gt $b ]
        then
        echo a is greater than b
else 
        echo a is less than b
fi

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