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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rounding off a decimal Post 302931868 by Don Cragun on Friday 16th of January 2015 05:04:54 AM
Old 01-16-2015
There is a ceil() function in C, but there is no utility named ceil. But, you can perform the equivalent functionality in a 1993 or later version of ksh or with awk.

Unfortunately, the code suggested by RavinderSingh13 won't work for integral values (even though it works perfectly for non-integral values).

The following should work correctly when given integral or floating point values for values into an integral value of type long integer:
Code:
printf '4.41 4.11 4.51\n4.0000000001 5.99999999, 6\n' | awk '
function roundup(f, i) {
	i = int(f)
	return(i + (i != f))
}
{	printf("%d,%d,%d\n", roundup($1), roundup($2), roundup($3))
}'

which produces the output:
Code:
5,5,5
5,6,6

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-16-2015 at 06:06 AM.. Reason: Add note for Solaris users.
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LROUND(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 LROUND(3)

NAME
lround, lroundf, lroundl, llround, llroundf, llroundl - round to nearest integer, away from zero SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h> long int lround(double x); long int lroundf(float x); long int lroundl(long double x); long long int llround(double x); long long int llroundf(float x); long long int llroundl(long double x); Link with -lm. Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): All functions shown above: _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99 DESCRIPTION
These functions round their argument to the nearest integer value, rounding away from zero, regardless of the current rounding direction (see fenv(3)). Note that unlike round(3), ceil(3), etc., the return type of these functions differs from that of their arguments. RETURN VALUE
These functions return the rounded integer value. If x is a NaN or an infinity, or the rounded value is too large to be stored in a long (long long in the case of the ll* functions) then a domain error occurs, and the return value is unspecified. ERRORS
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions. The following errors can occur: Domain error: x is a NaN or infinite, or the rounded value is too large An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised. These functions do not set errno. VERSIONS
These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1. CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001. SEE ALSO
ceil(3), floor(3), lrint(3), nearbyint(3), rint(3), round(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2008-08-11 LROUND(3)
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