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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How to round off a decimal number to higher whole number using ceil command in unix?
Eg. 4.41 or 4.11 or 4.51 should be rounded off to 5. (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: SanjayKumar28
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
could someone throw some light on the following behaviour of printf (I'll start with info about the system and the tool/shell/interpreter versions)?:
$ uname -a
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have having a great confusion in under standing the below terms.
a) "wall time" (time according the the clock on the wall vs. cpu time spent executing it)
what exactly it means?
For example:
wall time cpu time line:text
4.22404 24.186 if(some junk condition)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Experts,
I'm trying to find a way to round a number but in this way:
14367.577 ---> 14000
I used the following to round the number to the closer integer:
echo $var|awk '{print int($1+0.5)}'
and also:
xargs printf "%1.0f"
However, they don't work for my above... (9 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can i print the output of a perl script on a unix console and redirect the same in a log file under same directory simultaneously ?
Like in Shell script, we use tee, is there anything in Perl or any other option ? (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
It seems that perl sprintf uses the round-to-even method:
foreach my $i ( 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 ) {
printf "$i -> %.0f\n", $i;
}
__END__
0.5 -> 0
1.5 -> 2
2.5 -> 2
3.5 -> 4
4.5 -> 4
Where we probably wants to use round-half-up, i.e. output should be as below:
0.5 -> 1
1.5 -> 2... (8 Replies)
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7. Linux
I need some help with my rouding script. I have started pretty much from scratch and have no idea if its correct or even close but I have been trying and have gotten to this point. i keep getting syntax errors and im not sure what is wrong. Here is what I got
let value=$1;
while
do
let... (0 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I am generating a statistical report , below is the snippet of the code :
Now, $nSlices stands for the time duration,meaning,the statistics will be displayed for that particular time duration. Trouble is, for certain values of $totalTime (which is the end time - start time ), i... (9 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Can any one help me in finding a solution for rounding off to 2 decimal places.
I am using the following code:
VAR1=.01292105263157894736
VAR2=`echo "scale=2; $VAR1 * 100" | bc -l`
The result I 'm getting is
1.29210526315789473600
But I need the output as 1.29
Thanks
Shash (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello again.
I'm trying to use BC to calculate some numbers in a shell script.
I want to have the numbers rounded off to 1 decimal place.
for example:
initsize=1566720
zipsize=4733
I'm trying to get the ratio between them. the equation is:
(($initsize-$zipsize)/$initsize)*100
so... (3 Replies)
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