On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Saint Michael wrote: > the most obvious use of floating variables would be to compare > balances and to branch based on if a balance is lower than a certain > value > I use: > t=$(python3 -c "import math;print($balance > 0)") > and the > if [ "$t" == "False" ];then > echo "Result <= 0 [$t] Client $clname $clid Balance $balance" > fi > There must be a solution without Awk or Python or BC. Internal to bash
The example you show is just comparing to 0, which is trivial. If the $balance variable begins with "-" then it's negative. If it's "0" then it's zero. Otherwise it's positive. For comparing two arbitrary variables which contain strings representing floating point numbers, you're correct -- awk or bc would be the minimal solution.
