On 11/26/2015 12:20 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
echo 3.7 | awk '{printf "%.0f", $0}'
Another option
awk 'BEGIN {printf "%.0f", ARGV[1]}' 3.7
#4:
printf "%3.0f\n" 3.7
Yes, while bash does not itself "do" floating point arithmetic,
it does have a printf builtin. Also, you can do computations
using dc, and arbitrary precision calculator program, and you
can control the number of digits of precision used for output,
etc.
Regards -- Eliot Moss
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