Divide a number with command line?

[SoftwareExplorer]

Hi. Is there a way that I can divide a number using the command line? I want to make a script that puts out numbers from 1-100 divide those by 100 so that the result will be between 0 and 1.

Thanks in advance.

[m_duck]

I'm not sure if it is exactly what you want but command line division has just been mentioned here in post #5.

EDIT: Heh, your thread...

[VCoolio]

I told you on the other thread about conky, lol. Run "man bc" but basically it's just piping to it.

echo "scale=1; a/b" | bc

will divide a by b with 1 decimal output.

[SoftwareExplorer]

I told you on the other thread about conky, lol. Run "man bc" but basically it's just piping to it.

echo "scale=1; a/b" | bc

will divide a by b with 1 decimal output.

Thanks:D I just asked about division in this separate thread because I thought it would be more easily found and therefore more helpful if division was in a separate thread from one about conky.

[SoftwareExplorer]

Here's how I did it:
echo "scale=<number-of-decimal-places>; $(<command-that-gets-the-number-you-need>)/<number-you-want-to-divide-by>" | bc -q

The -q option keeps bc from printing copyright notices into your script.

Hope this helps someone sometime in the future.