Use the printf() function for the output. The format string with which to format the output follows the same rules as the C-function "printf()". In your case:
I have a perl script that reports the avg time of a application call and the total number of calls. This works fine, however I would like to trim the number of decimal places reported from 12 to like 3 and I don't know how.
Any suggestions? Here is what I use to get the avg time...
for $eRef (... (2 Replies)
I'm using shell scripts to run some commands for the Configuration Management tool called Telelogic Synergy.
I need to get the script to compare version numbers of files. The version numbers of the files are part of the actual filename, such as the following example:
example_file-1... (7 Replies)
i need to multiplay a number with 1.00.. so that the output should contain two decimal places at end..
for example...
236 * 1.00 = 236.00
245.8 * 1.00 = 245.80
but when i perform multiplication it shows output as.
236
245.8
can anyone help me to get the actual output of... (11 Replies)
I am trying to perform arithmetric, for example, to increment the value of variable $a (say 3) by 0.05 but when I tried the following expression
let a=a+0.05
or a=$((a+0.05))
both returned
3.0499999999999998
I want to keep 2 decimal places so it returns 3.05 instead. (6 Replies)
Please help me in rounding up value upto 2 decimal palces using sed command
#!/usr/bin/bash
a=15.42
b=13.33
c=`echo $a*$b |bc -l`
echo $c
above code is is giving output "205.5486" but i want the output as "205.55"
Thank you... (15 Replies)
I have input file like below,
201424|9999|OSS|622010|RGT|00378228764
201424|8888|OM|587079|RGT|00284329675
201424|7777|OM|587076|RGT|00128671024
201424|6666|OM|581528|RGT|00113552084
Output should be like below, should add decimal (.) from last 4 digits.
... (2 Replies)
I used the below script to Sum up a field in a file based on some unique values. But the problem is when it is summing up the units, it is truncating to 2 decimals and not 6 decimals as in the input file (Input file has the units with up to 6 Decimals – Sample data below, when the units in the 2... (4 Replies)
Hi guys...
I am loving this integer maths thing.
64 bit systems are certainly easier than 32 bit, but hey, I don't intend to leave out my fav' platform.
Using one of the 'Brothers' methods, URL inside the code.
#!/bin/sh
#
# #!/usr/local/bin/dash
# e_constant.sh
# Brother's formula .
#... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
fmtcheck
FMTCHECK(3) BSD Library Functions Manual FMTCHECK(3)NAME
fmtcheck -- sanitizes user-supplied printf(3)-style format string
LIBRARY
Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, -lbsd)
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsd/stdio.h>
const char *
fmtcheck(const char *fmt_suspect, const char *fmt_default);
DESCRIPTION
The fmtcheck() scans fmt_suspect and fmt_default to determine if fmt_suspect will consume the same argument types as fmt_default and to
ensure that fmt_suspect is a valid format string.
The printf(3) family of functions cannot verify the types of arguments that they are passed at run-time. In some cases, like catgets(3), it
is useful or necessary to use a user-supplied format string with no guarantee that the format string matches the specified arguments.
The fmtcheck() was designed to be used in these cases, as in:
printf(fmtcheck(user_format, standard_format), arg1, arg2);
In the check, field widths, fillers, precisions, etc. are ignored (unless the field width or precision is an asterisk '*' instead of a digit
string). Also, any text other than the format specifiers is completely ignored.
RETURN VALUES
If fmt_suspect is a valid format and consumes the same argument types as fmt_default, then the fmtcheck() will return fmt_suspect. Other-
wise, it will return fmt_default.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the same arguments. For example, "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n" is com-
patible with "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)". However, "%o" is not equivalent to "%lx" because the
first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
SEE ALSO printf(3)BUGS
The fmtcheck() function does not understand all of the conversions that printf(3) does.
BSD October 16, 2002 BSD