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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiplying lines of file that contain certain letter by value Post 302940496 by Scrutinizer on Monday 6th of April 2015 01:24:27 PM
Old 04-06-2015
Try:
Code:
awk '$1~/A$/{$1*=500}1' file

This is with the number in the first column. If it is in the 4th column, you could try:
Code:
awk '$4~/A$/{$4*=500}1' file

 

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wconv(3C)																 wconv(3C)

NAME
towupper(), towlower() - translate wide characters SYNOPSIS
Remarks: These functions are compliant with the XPG4 Worldwide Portability Interface wide-character conversion functions. They parallel the 8-bit character conversion functions defined in conv(3C). DESCRIPTION
and have as domain a the value of which is representable as a or the value If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined. If the argument of represents a lowercase letter, the result is the corresponding uppercase letter. If the argument of represents an uppercase letter, the result is the corresponding lowercase letter. All other arguments are returned unchanged. Definitions for these functions, the types and the value are provided in the header. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Locale The category determines the translations to be done. International Code Set Support Single-byte and multi-byte character code sets are supported. AUTHOR
was developed by IBM, OSF, and HP. SEE ALSO
conv(3C), multibyte(3C), wctype(3C), setlocale(3C), lang(5), thread_safety(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
wconv(3C)
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