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The first one turns ("casts") the "strings" into numbers.

If the output's the same on both, it's probably because the input is already numerical.


$ echo a b c | awk '{ print $1, $2, $3 }'
a...

We JUST want you to set LC_ALL=C in the environment of the awk, sed, or cut command you're trying to run. We aren't trying to get you to change the environment in your shell for other commands that...

Well, puzzles me as well. I tried to replicatre your file and getod -bc file
0000000 347 003 062 060 061 066 060 061 060 063 061 066 063 070 061 065
347 003 2 0 1 6 0 1 0 3 ...

That will fail if $AllFile contains whitespace.

}' "$AllFile.tmp" > "$AllFile"

BEGIN and END are part of an awk script: called within the fileformatting ksh function:

as they contain no statements they could be removed e.g:
awk -v CleanupMask=${CleanupMask} '
{

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Please use code tags, not icode tags, that is the https://www.unix.com/images/editor/code.png button.

First it declares Dis_array as an array, set -A is how it's done in KSH -- other shells use...

man ksh, yields:

read [ -ACprsv ] [ -d delim] [ -n n] [ [ -N n] [ [ -t timeout] [ -u unit] [ vname?prompt ] [ vname ... ]
The shell input mechanism. One line is read and is...