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Old 05-01-2019
Read a file with decimal numbers in bash

Hello,
I have the following script

Code:
while read id fraction
do
sambamba -h -f bam -t 10 --subsampling-seed=50 -s $frac ${id}.bam -o ${id}.out.bam
done < fraction.txt

where fraction.txt has two columns (id,fraction) and 50 rows

Quote:
123_AB 0.17
456_CD 0.09
789_EF 0.20
I am unable to run this as bash is not able to read the second column from fraction.txt as its in decimal. is there a way to make shell read decimal numbers ?


Many thanks
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Old 05-01-2019
Perhaps:
Code:
 sambamba -h -f bam -t 10 --subsampling-seed=50 -s $fraction ${id}.bam -o ${id}.out.bam


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Old 05-01-2019
very silly of me ! Smilie

Thank you !
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