The standard way to print a percent sign character in a printf format string (in C, in the printf utility, and in awk) is with %%. Some versions of awk will let you get by with:
Others will give you a diagnostic similar to:
should work with any awk.
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hi guys im running into a problem here im trying to calculate a sum a values from a field for example a hava a file caled <filename> and it has $3 fields, and i want toextract a group of values from field &1 and compute the sum of values from $3 accordingly this is my code so far...
awk... (3 Replies)
Hi, I am having the file which contains the following two columns.
518 _factorial
256 _main
73 _atol
52 ___do_global_ctors
170 ___main
52 ___do_g
How can calculate the percentage of each value in the first column ?
first need to get the sum of the first column and... (3 Replies)
Please advice me how to calculate logical layout values in hdd from below table.
Physical Layout
-----------------
Bytes per Sector : 512
Sectors per Track : 480-1272
Number of Heads : 4
Number of Disks : 2
Logical Layout
---------------
Number of Heads : 16
Number of Sectors /... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file containing timestamps (at micro-seconds granularity). It looks like the following:
06:49:42.383818
06:49:42.390190
06:49:42.392308
06:49:42.392712
06:49:42.393437
06:49:42.393960
06:49:42.402115
Now I need a sed/awk script to take the difference of two successive... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to understand how to calculate umask value but couldnt get the right way to calculate it. can some one please give me a small formula or easy method to do it?
Thanks,
Waseem (4 Replies)
Hey guys,
I have several huge tab delimited files which look like this:
a 1 20
a 3 15
a 5 10
b 2 15
b 6 10
c 3 23
what I am interested is to calculate the average of top n% of data in third column. So for example for this file the top 50% values are:
23
20
(Please note that it... (11 Replies)
I have the need to match the first two columns and when they match, calculate the percent of average for the third columns. The following awk script does not give me the expected results.
awk 'NR==FNR {T=$3; next} $1,$2 in T {P=T/$3*100; printf "%s %s %.0f\n", $1, $2, (P>=0)?P:-P}' diff.file... (1 Reply)
hi all i have a reporting work and i want it to be automated using shell scripting kindly let me know how can i make that possibe .
eg data are :... (2 Replies)
Trying to use awk to print the lines in file that have either REF or SNV in $3, add a header line, sort by $4 in numerical order. The below code does that already, but where I am stuck is on the last part where the total lines are counted and printed under Total_Targets, under Targets_less_than is... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am writing a script which expects as its input a hash with student names as the keys and marks as the values. The script then returns array of average marks for student scored 60-70, 70-80, and over 90.
Output expected
50-70 1
70-90 3
over 90 0
The test script so far... (4 Replies)