is there any function in unix which will convert a integer to absolute value with a single decimal point.

suppose x=15232
y=x/1024=14.875

i want y to be 14.8

Similarly if y=6.29452 it should come as 6.3

Try Perl function "sprintf".

I'd say

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# This will round the value of Y to two decimal points, using ".2f"
$Y=14.875;
$roundedY= sprintf "%.2f", $Y;
print "$roundedY \n";
exit;

For more details look at sprintf - formatted print into a string

The same is in C and Korn in the man pages. I hope this helps.

Good luck

For the absolute value (and one decimal place), you would also use Perl's abs function, e.g.:

bytes = int(bytes/1024)

is there any funcion similar to int for abs in ksh