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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sum up a decimal column in a tab separated text file and error handling Post 302398330 by pssandeep on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 09:05:42 AM
Old 02-24-2010
Hi,

thanks its working. Its not working whn i am using complete path for "awk"

One other question how to do error handling on this command,

For example, if something fails while adding up or it does not able to add a column because of data problem or it goes to infinite loop.

Do you suggest any best practices and my script should fail if any thing happens

thanks,
Sandeep
 

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PR(1)							      General Commands Manual							     PR(1)

NAME
pr - print file SYNOPSIS
pr [ option ... ] [ file ... ] DESCRIPTION
Pr produces a printed listing of one or more files on its standard output. The output is separated into pages headed by a date, the name of the file or a specified header, and the page number. With no file arguments, pr prints its standard input. Options apply to all following files but may be reset between files: -n Produce n-column output. +n Begin printing with page n. -b Balance columns on last page, in case of multi-column output. -d Double space. -en Set the tab stops for input text every n spaces. -h Take the next argument as a page header (file by default). -in Replace sequences of blanks in the output by tabs, using tab stops set every n spaces. -f Use formfeeds to separate pages. -ln Take the length of the page to be n lines instead of the default 66. -m Print all files simultaneously, each in one column. -n Number the lines of each file. -on Offset the left margin n character positions. -sc Separate columns by the single character c instead of aligning them with white space. A missing c is taken to be a tab. -t Do not print the 5-line header or the 5-line trailer normally supplied for each page. -wn For multi-column output, take the width of the page to be n characters instead of the default 72. SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/pr.c SEE ALSO
cat(1), lp(1) PR(1)
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