Bash script: specify bc output number format

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Published on 2010-06-03T11:20:41Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 11:24 UTC
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Greetings!

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

bc
scale=6
1/2
.500000

For further usage in my script I need "0.500000" insted of ".500000".

Could you help me please to configure bc output number format for my case?

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