Need help with Linux Bash script. Essentially, when run the script asks for three sets of numbers from the user and then calculates the numbers inputted and finds the average.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter a number: "
read a
while [ "$a" = $ ]; do
echo "Enter a second set of numbers: "
read b
b=$
if [ b=$ ]
Am I going about this wrong?
Still not sure what you want a to be. But I think you can just loop 3 times. Then each iteration get a set of numbers, and add them up and keep track of how many you have. So something like below. (note $numbers and $sum are initialized to 0 automatically)
#!/bin/bash
sum=0
numbers=0
for a in {1..3}; do
read -p $'Enter a set of numbers:\n' b
for j in $b; do
[[ $j =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || { echo "$j is not a number" >&2 && exit 1; }
((numbers+=1)) && ((sum+=j))
done
done
((numbers==0)) && avg=0 || avg=$(echo "$sum / $numbers" | bc -l)
echo "Sum of inputs = $sum"
echo "Number of inputs = $numbers"
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $avg
Where example output would be
Enter a set of numbers:
1 2 3
Enter a set of numbers:
1 2 3
Enter a set of numbers:
7
Sum of inputs = 19
Number of inputs = 7
Average input = 2.71
If I understood you correctly, the following code will do what you asked:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter three numbers:"
read a b c
sum=$(($a + $b + $c))
count=3
result=$(echo "scale=2; 1.0 * $sum / $count" | bc -l)
echo "The mean of these " $count " values is " $result
Note - I left count
as a separate variable so you can easily extend this code.
The use of bc
allows floating point arithmetic (not built in to bash); scale=2
means "two significant figures".
Sample run:
Enter three numbers:
3 4 5
The mean of these 3 values is 4.00
Test values:
sum=200232320
total=300123123
Basic take average and get percentage:
avg=$(echo "$sum / $total" | bc -l)
avg=$(echo "$avg*100" | bc -l)
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $avg
Basic take average and get percentage with fault tolerance:
# -- what if sum=0 or greater than total?
if [ $sum -eq 0 ] || [ $sum -gt $total ] ;then
avg=0
else
avg=$(echo "$sum / $total" | bc -l)
avg=$(echo "$avg*100" | bc -l)
fi
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $avg
Basic take average and get percentage:
result=$(echo "scale=6; 1.0 * $sum / $total*100" | bc -l)
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $result
Basic take average and get percentage:
result=$(echo "scale=6; 1.0 * $sum / $total*100" | bc -l)
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $result
Basic take average and get percentage (with tolerance:
# -- if sum is greater than total we have a problem add in 1.0 to address div by zero
[[ $sum -gt $total ]] && result=0 || result=$(echo "scale=6; 1.0 * $sum / $total*100" | bc -l)
printf "Average input = %.2f\n" $result
output:
./test.sh
Average input = 66.72
Average input = 66.72
Average input = 66.72
Average input = 66.72
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter size"
read s `#reading size of the average`
i=1 `#initializing`
sum=0 `#initializing`
echo "Enter the factors"
while [ $i -le $s ]
do
read factors
sum=$((sum + factors))
i=$((i + 1))
done
avg=$(echo $sum / $s | bc -l)
echo "Average of factors is" $avg
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