Bourne Shell

Loop through multi line text (including spaces)
while read LINE
do
    echo "${LINE}"
done <<< "`printf "line1\nline2"`"

or in bashish with command output: 

while read LINE
do
    echo "${LINE}"
done <<< "$(ls -1)"
Calculations

awk 

echo 3.14158 2.348 | awk '{ printf("%f\n", $1/$2) }' 
echo "" | awk '{ printf("%i\n", 10+5) }'
awk '{ print $1/2 }' <<< "5"

bc 

echo "$charge_percent" | bc -l

bash 

result=$((30*1000/60))