Something is not quite right: POSIX on sort options (the group that defines for UNIX OS providers what things have to do to get certification) when sort has the -n option:
In your locale a radix character is the dot (or period). So with almost any modern UNIX/Linux this should work. What makes you think it does not work?
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Sorry my bad! I am able to figure it out now,
I was trying sorting this values which were in column 5th, However at a point the 4rth and 5th column touching together and it was making one column sort , so the output was not coming right.
Yoda, Don, thanks. Don, You are right, OS X , is correct. and the command is correct. my data file had problem.
Thanks Jim , able to figure it out.
I was trying sort -rnk 5 and the output was not coming as expected:
Actually sort -rn workingg as expected. The problem with the file which has disorder in few columns that I was trying ,
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Is there a grep commands for numbers w/decimal points
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Hi Team,
I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command.
I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command.
The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have one input file which is delimited by pipe. I want to put decimal points in this input file at particular position in particular column and also get the negative sign (if any) at start of that column.
$ cat Input_file.txt
11|10102693|1|20151202|10263204|20151127|N|0001... (7 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a txt file with only one column which contains p values. My data looks like this:
5.04726976606584e-190
2.94065711152402e-189
2.94065711152402e-189
9.19932135717279e-176
1.09472516659859e-170
1.24974648916809e-170
0.1223974648916
0.9874974648916
...
what I want... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to set decimal point to 16 in the following bash script but it has syntax error at }:
awk '{printf"%.16e", (a<500,a++,$1/(a*1.1212121212121229e-02))}' input.dat >output.datHow may I set it in the correct way please? Thank you very much! (6 Replies)
i am having a varialbe a , which is input to my file
i want to multiply this input with value .43, and assign it to variable b.
i tried it as below:
#!/bin/sh
a=$1
b=`expr $1\*0.43`
echo b=$b
error : expr: non-integer argument
Please tell me , how to do this.
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I have a file full of coordinates of the form:
37.68899917602539 58.07500076293945 57.79100036621094
The numbers don't always have the same number of decimal points. I need to reduce the decimal points of all the numbers (there are 128 rows of 3 numbers) to 2.
I have tried to do this... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Here is my original string: 192.168.2.1.8088. The target string I want: 192.168.2.1, how can I use awk or sed or other command to get rid of .8088 in the string?
Thanks,
Ray (9 Replies)
Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
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