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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi ALL,
I am having semi column separated file as below. I am having negative values for the records starting with 11095. How can I convert that positive number
I tried this below seems not working
sed 's/ \(*\)$/ -\1/;t;s/\(.*\)-/\1/ myfile
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to compare two negative numbers using awk on linux.But it is giving me wrong result.Same code is working perfectly on solaris.
print ((0+new_price) < MIN_PRICE)
e.g If I try to compare -1.32(new_price) and -500(min_price) using "<" operator, output is 1 i.e true.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using a small script to divide some numbers in a given file and display the output in another file. I am getting the following error
basename: invalid option -- '5'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
considering the following table:
ID col1 col2 col3 col4
1 -16.06801249 13.49785832 -56.57087607 -27.00500526
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I am trying to write a bash script which will give me the most negative number. Here is an example input:
Ce 3.7729752124 -4.9505731588 -4.1061257680
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I'm new to the forums and hope to be able to contribute something useful in the future; however I must admit that what has prompted me to join is the fact that currently I need help with something that has me at the end of my tether.
I have a PDB (Protein Data Bank) file which I... (13 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to change value in column 5 to negative based on value in column 2 ?
Example: For all records with A in column 2 change value in column 5 to negative.
file
Code:
1234~A~b~c~10~e~f~g~h~09/10/09
1234~A~b~c~75~e~f~g~h~11/12/10
1234~A~b~c~40~e~f~g~h~12/06/10
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8. HP-UX
Hi All,
Just faced an interesting thing in HP-UX. I was dividing 2955334616 / 2 by using echo `expr 2955334616 / 2` , and this ofcourse which expects 1477667308 to be returned. But I am getting -669816340 and I am :wall: how exactly this is possible. It is not one of the compliments (Ones or... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, does anyone know how to ignore whether a number is negative in a script. E.g. if I have a variable that contains -1200, how do I ignore the minus sign? (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to search for a return code of -3. Using grep "-3" *.* is giving a syntax error. Please suggest as to how can we search for this pattern using grep.
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