Simple Interest Calculator

A bash script to calculate simple interest. This project is part of a micro-finance startup's transition to Git. Open source and licensed under Apache 2.0.

#!/bin/bash

Simple Interest Calculator

echo "Welcome to the simple Interest Calculator"

Read principal, rate, and time from the user

read -p "Enter the principal amount: " principal read -p "Enter the rate of interest (in %): " rate read -p "Enter the time (in years): " time

Calculate simple interest

interest=$(echo "scale=2; ($principal * $rate * $time) / 100" | bc)

Display the result

echo "The Simple Interest is: $interest"