Shell Programming and Scripting

Your question is becoming increasingly incoherent. Originally you asked how to divide a number by 10, or by 100, then your desired output was not only in a different format, but not even the same number in any format!!

Code:

awk '{ print $1+0 }' file

or

Code:

awk '{ printf( "%.7f\n"), $1 }'

Hi.

My take on this is that a number like 0.2057422D-01 is not recognized as the double-precision equivalent of 0.2057422E-01, i.e. scientific notation, but from a code which produces the "D" to signify a double-precision result. An example of such a code might be Fortran.

An awk rule like:

Code:

{ sub(/D/,"E",$1) ; printf( "%.8f\n"), $1 }

for the input:

Code:

0.2057422D-01  
0.2463722D-01
-0.1068047D-02

would produce:

Code:

0.02057422
0.02463722
-0.00106805

which is rounded for the last number, but produces essentially what the OP desires ... cheers, drl