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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Approximate a % value Post 302681227 by Scott on Friday 3rd of August 2012 03:07:38 AM

08-03-2012

Administrator Emeritus

Change your print to be printf.

i.e.

Code:

$ echo 99.1459 | awk '{printf "%.3f\n", $1}'
99.146

(although that will also give you 100.000, so if not printf, you may need to use a function to trim the output instead)

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