Bash script: specify bc output number format

Question

Greetings!

I uses bс to make some calculations in my script. For example:

bc
scale=6
1/2
.500000

For further usage

Answer 1

I believe here is modified version of the function:

float_scale=6

function float_eval()
{
    local stat=0
    local result=0.0
    if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
        result=$(echo "scale=$float_scale; $*" | bc -q | awk '{printf "%f\n", $0}' 2>/dev/null)
        stat=$?
        if [[ $stat -eq 0  &&  -z "$result" ]]; then stat=1; fi
    fi
    echo $result
    return $stat
}