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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to change a number on a specific lines in a file with shell? Post 302606009 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of March 2012 10:33:07 AM
Old 03-09-2012
[edit] You can display it. That's what code tags are for.

Awk considers the spaces as separators, not fixed columns. If you need fixed columns, you must put them in fixed columns. Working on something.
 

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fixed(3alleg4)							  Allegro manual						    fixed(3alleg4)

NAME
fixed - Fixed point integer to replace floats. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> typedef long fixed DESCRIPTION
This is a fixed point integer which can replace float with similar results and is faster than float on low end machines. Read chapter "Fixed point math routines" for the full explanation. SEE ALSO
, ex12bit(3alleg4), ex3buf(3alleg4), ex3d(3alleg4), excustom(3alleg4), exfixed(3alleg4), exrotscl(3alleg4), exspline(3alleg4), exsprite(3alleg4), exstars(3alleg4), exupdate(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 fixed(3alleg4)
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