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Old 09-11-2008
removing and rounding up decimals
Hi Experts,

I have a command that gives me the output as below
Code:
root@ckpgpay11core> cat sara | awk '{ sum += $1} ; END { print sum }' | awk {'print $1/90'}
8.88889

how do i remove the decimal spaces so that the figure will round itself to 9?

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 09-11-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by aismann
Hi Experts,

I have a command that gives me the output as below
Code:
root@ckpgpay11core> cat sara | awk '{ sum += $1} ; END { print sum }' | awk {'print $1/90'}
8.88889

how do i remove the decimal spaces so that the figure will round itself to 9?

Thanks.
Using awk

Code:
[/tmp]$ echo "8.8889" | awk '{printf "%.0f\n", $1}'
9

# 3  
Old 09-11-2008
change print $1/90 to printf("%.0f\n", $1/90)
# 4  
Old 09-11-2008
thanks guys, works great Smilie
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