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Re: [LUG] FISH (Friendly Interactive SHell)
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] FISH (Friendly Interactive SHell)
- From: Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:59:20 +0100 (BST)
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On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
One thing I particularly like about fish is that working with floating point
numbers is built in. Bash works with integers only unless you bring in bc or
calc.
Just wondering,
I'm wondering (and maybe I'm the only one wondering) why you're dealing
with floating point numbers in shell scripting scripts...
There must be better and easier ways to do whatever you're trying to do...
Even in BASIC...
What are you trying to do?
Gordon
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