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Hi,
Facing some issues while adding due to exponentials in HP-UX 11.00 ora@ps:/var/tmp> cat dbrec.log
MAX(SEQUEN
----------
1000299
1 row selected.

ora@ps:/var/tmp> NEXT_NUM=`awk '/^ /{print $1 + 1}' dbrec.log`
ora@ps:/var/tmp> export NEXT_NUM
ora@ps:/var/tmp> echo $NEXT_NUM
1.0003e+06

How can I avoid this ?

Thanks
Vinit

Use printf to format the output

Code:

NEXT_NUM=`awk '/^ /{printf("%8d\n", $1 + 1)}' dbrec.log`