http://www.bytemycode.com Revisions for this snippet. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:39 +0000 1998-2008 en-us http://www.bytemycode.com http://www.bytemycode.com/img/rss_title.gif http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/350/1/ http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/350/comments/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:47:31 +0000 smallshellscript bash, sh, shell http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/350/ A lot of time shell scripts need to do some sort of math. Bash's innability to do floating point arithmatic has lead to some pretty neat workarounds, often times these workarounds are slow. If you need a lot of calculations done with speed, you'll find this snippet useful

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