Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey everyone, I was wondering if i am able to write a sed command to round a number to two decimal places. So for example:

1.58674
would be
1.58

I just want to chop off the numbers to the right of the second digit after the period. I know this is probably trivial but the closest i got was

sed 's/[.].*$//'

which deletes everything after the period including the period. Thanks.

Code:

sed 's/\(\.[0-9][0-9]\).*$/\1/g'

EDIT: Missed a backslash

cool it works thanks!

but not in sed ..

Code:

$ echo "scale=2;1.58674/1" | bc
1.58

I tried this value "test.test1234" with send command not working.

The above sed code is for numbers... notice [0-9]?...

Following code will give you test.te as output

Code:

echo test.test1234| sed 's/\(\...\).*$/\1/g'

--ahamed

i want only number values,not character...