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how to calculate percentage in shell

I would like to calculate percentage in shell. But I can’t do it. My script is It is neither showing any value nor terminating when executing this script. Answer awk will give you an n1 illegal field name if you do that, as it’s inside single quotes. Also, to avoid awk keep reading stdin you shoul…

BASH: how to perform arithmetic on numbers in a pipe

I am getting a stream of numbers in a pipe, and would like to perform some operations before passing them on to the next section, but I’m a little lost about how I would go about it without breaking the pipe. for example Would you have any ideas on how to make something like this work? The actual operat…