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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep for the most negative number Post 302615517 by Corona688 on Thursday 29th of March 2012 02:56:01 PM
Old 03-29-2012
This will give you 10 decimal places:

Code:
awk -v OFS="\t" '
# Run this for all lines in the first given file
NR==FNR { for(N=2; N<=NF; N++) if((!MIN)||($N < MIN)) MIN=$N; next }
# Run this for all lines in any following files
{ for(N=2; N<=NF; N++) $N =sprintf("%.10f", $N-MIN); } 1' inputfile inputfile > outputfile

But awk math is floating point, not infinite precision.
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