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Old 08-20-2007
Raynon Raynon is offline
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Check for numeric inputs
Hi All,

How do i modify the below script such that if the input is numeric, it will give the numeric digit, else it will ouput "0"

Code:
echo "xxx"  | awk '/^[0-9]+$/'