Re: math, percentage

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn@world-net.net>]

Here are some ideas:

total=15
typeset -F 2 percentage # only show two decimal places when formatting
for i in {1..$total}; {
     print $i of $total
     percentage=$(( $i.0 / $total * 100 ))
     print percentage $percentage
}

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:56:35 +1100, Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:

> is there a way to do this with built in math instead of running bc ?
>
> tp=`echo "scale=0;(${t}*100)/$T" |bc`
>
> T = some dynamic total number like `ls |wc -l`
> t = counter that starts at 1 and incriments as a loop walks through T
> tp = percent of total job completed so far
>
> Thanks
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