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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
To:        FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   expr replacement
Message-ID:  <20020823021838.V67143-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>

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Hi guys & gals,

	I'm writing a simple shell script that finds percentages for me.
The problem here is that when I do the division with expr I always get a
result of 0 since it's below 1.  Is there a replacement for this or am I
just doing it wrong?  Take a look..  This is my command.

percentage=`expr $dirttl / $totalsongs`

where $totalsongs = aroudn 1000 and dirttl = anywhere from 8 to 565.

Thanks,
Christopher J. Umina


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