1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a command that sets a variable length? I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char. Is there such a command? I am on a sun box running ksh Thanks (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Here is my original string: 192.168.2.1.8088. The target string I want: 192.168.2.1, how can I use awk or sed or other command to get rid of .8088 in the string? Thanks, Ray (9 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there a way when using awk to specify the number of decimal points needed for the output? (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file full of coordinates of the form: 37.68899917602539 58.07500076293945 57.79100036621094 The numbers don't always have the same number of decimal points. I need to reduce the decimal points of all the numbers (there are 128 rows of 3 numbers) to 2. I have tried to do this... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am having a varialbe a , which is input to my file i want to multiply this input with value .43, and assign it to variable b. i tried it as below: #!/bin/sh a=$1 b=`expr $1\*0.43` echo b=$b error : expr: non-integer argument Please tell me , how to do this. Thanks (10 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I would like to set decimal point to 16 in the following bash script but it has syntax error at }: awk '{printf"%.16e", (a<500,a++,$1/(a*1.1212121212121229e-02))}' input.dat >output.datHow may I set it in the correct way please? Thank you very much! (6 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear all, I have a txt file with only one column which contains p values. My data looks like this: 5.04726976606584e-190 2.94065711152402e-189 2.94065711152402e-189 9.19932135717279e-176 1.09472516659859e-170 1.24974648916809e-170 0.1223974648916 0.9874974648916 ... what I want... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have one input file which is delimited by pipe. I want to put decimal points in this input file at particular position in particular column and also get the negative sign (if any) at start of that column. $ cat Input_file.txt 11|10102693|1|20151202|10263204|20151127|N|0001... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team, I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command. I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command. The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)

10. Homework & Coursework Questions

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: Is there a grep commands for numbers w/decimal points Display lines for students with GPA above 3.69 but less... (3 Replies)