1. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am trying to add numbers with decimal place and I am prompted with an error. this expr command works :add=`expr 1 + 1` :echo $add :2 but when i am trying to add :addThis=`expr 1.1 + 1` :expr: An integer value was expected. is there a way to add numbers with decimal place in UNIX? (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Everyone, I need a shell/perl script to bring selected columns from all the files located in a directory and place them in a new file side by side. File1: a b c d 2 3 4 5 f g h i .......... File2: I II III IV w x y z .............. and so on many files are there...... (8 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a document that has 7 columns. eg. $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 string string string string integer integer integer The 6th and 7th columns are a mix of integers and floating decimals (with 4 decimal places). I need to convert the last 2 columns so that all... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have an XML with below content from which i need to remove the trailing zeros, like 123.00 should be converted to 123 and 123.01200 to 123.012 Below is the sample excerpt data from XML file. My input file size could be approximately 5 GB or less. CURRENT:... (10 Replies)

5. Programming

Hi , seq can be 0...128 int windex = seq / 8; int bindex = seq % 8; unsigned char bitvalue = '\x01' << (7-bindex) ; bpv.bitmapvalue = bitvalue; This is the part of a program to convert decimal to bitmap value of hexadecimal. I want this to change to convert only to... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have problem in the middle of implementing to users, whereby the complaint is all about the decimal place which is too long. I need two decimal places only, but the outcome from command is always fixed to 6. See the sample : before: Sort Total Site Sort SortName Parts ... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have an issue converting decimal places of a particular column, i am using below script to get the output, but the output is not generating in desired format. awk -F"," 'BEGIN{OFS=","}{if(NR==0)getline;if ($7 != "") {if ($7 > 0) $7=$7/100 ; {printf "%.2f"... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear all, I have a data test.txt as below. X22.30799720_T cg03868770 -0.5645412582127 2.4084685750406e-175 X22.30781182_A cg03868770 -0.5620426397492 3.5818034129169e-172 X22.30780724_C cg03868770 -0.5616890165605 2.9765569717858e-168 what I want is: X22.30799720_T cg03868770... (3 Replies)

9. 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)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I was hoping someone could help me with a sed script I am trying to write? I am on a Mac running ElCapitan I have some text that I have converted from a pdf that I want to format into an xml file. In the file I have managed to delete all the text I do not need. The text I have left is... (8 Replies)