> Yes it works! Thanks you very much.
>
Iif you need to multiply anything that is not integer, it will not work.
In this case you can define a little function to do the math, like this:
calc(){ eval awk \'BEGIN{printf \"%12.8f\\n\", $@}\'; }
alat=10.2
c_over_a=$(calc $alat/6.4)
echo $c_over_a
hth
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