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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Heyas
Trying to calculate the total size of a file by reading its bitrate.
Code snippet:
fs_expected() { #
# Returns the expected filesize in bytes
#
pr_str() {
ff=$(cat $TMP.info)
d="${ff#*bitrate: }"
echo "${d%%,*}" | $AWK '{print $1}' | head -n 1
}
t_BYTERATE=$((... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: sea
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Occasionally I make a mistake in my shell that results in there being a > for the prompt instead of the normal $.
Today I accidentally left off a " in a sed command,
sed s/\"//g" infile > outfile
and then I get
$ sed s/\"//g" infile > outfile
>
>
I have never figured out how to get... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am using the below script which has awk command, but it is not returing the expected result. can some pls help me to correct the command.
The below script sample.ksh should give the result if the value of last 4 digits in the variable NM matches with the variable value DAT. The... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: G.K.K
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
could someone throw some light on the following behaviour of printf (I'll start with info about the system and the tool/shell/interpreter versions)?:
$ uname -a
Linux linux-86if.site 3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: elixir_sinari
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have some calculation in my script which is similar to the below example . I find that sometimes when using large decimal digits, the output gets automatically rounded off and it is affecting the program. I am not able to understand what is happening here..
awk '{
a=6.32498922
a1=6.324... (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I had a person bring an interesting problem to me that appears to involve some sort of rounding inside awk. I've verified this with awk and nawk on Solaris as well as with gawk 3.1.5 on a Linux box.
The original code fragment he brought me was thus:
for (index=0; index < 1; index=index+.1)
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mmyer2
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have managed to round up numbers by using the following command:
echo "5.54" | awk '{printf "%.0f\n", $1}'
result
6
How can I round up all the numbers in a column in a file and print the lines with the new calculated totals?
Thanks, (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: keenboy100
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I am trying to round following number.
0.07435000
echo "0.07435000"|awk '{printf "%s\n",$1*100}'|awk '{printf "%.2f\n",$1}'
It returns: 7.435
It should return: 7.44
Any suggestion please?
Thanks,
Prashant (2 Replies)
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Hi
Is there any way to turn off the (often ridiculously big) tooltips that are displayed when hovering over a topic in a topic list? It's driving me nuts.
Thx.
J (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
i got fbsd here,when i try to start my X server as an user I got hte following error.
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
You should be usig Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!
But... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Stormpie
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