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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to round up on fives in unix? Post 302373491 by cfajohnson on Friday 20th of November 2009 11:50:03 AM
Old 11-20-2009
Code:
printf "%s\n" "$@" |
awk '{
  n = sprintf( "%1.0e\n", $1)
  printf "%d\n", n
}'

 

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ROUND(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  ROUND(3)

NAME
round, roundf, roundl -- round to nearest integral value LIBRARY
Math Library (libm, -lm) SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h> double round(double x); float roundf(float x); long double roundl(long double x); DESCRIPTION
The round(), roundf(), and roundl() functions return the nearest integral value to x; if x lies halfway between two integral values, then these functions return the integral value with the larger absolute value (i.e., they round away from zero). SEE ALSO
ceil(3), floor(3), ieee(3), lrint(3), lround(3), math(3), rint(3), trunc(3) STANDARDS
These functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99''). HISTORY
The round() and roundf() functions appeared in FreeBSD 5.3. The roundl() function appeared in FreeBSD 6.0. BSD
April 7, 2005 BSD
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