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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix beginner. Need some very basic help. Post 302180456 by era on Monday 31st of March 2008 09:06:08 AM
Old 03-31-2008
Do you get the same result as me on this?

Code:
vnix$ awk 'BEGIN { print 8852934720 }' </dev/null
8.85293e+09

If you get a much bigger number then this is likely a case of integer overflow in your awk.

So if you use grep to print the file name and the number from each file, and sort by the number, do you see any weird numbers which don't match your expectations?
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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