Hi folks!
I just like to send some information regarding "awk" problems under MacOs
which occurs at least on "German" systems. I am not quite sure if FS uses
awk at any point - but it might help when processing FS results:
With the Region Setting "Germany" in the general settings of MacOs (
system-> Language&text->region), awk gets into trouble when dealing with
floatings points:
echo "1 0.2 3.1" | awk '{ print $3*$2 }' --> 0!!!
The work around would be using "bc" for the calculations:
awk '{ print $3 " * " $2 }' | bc -l
However, if you change the regional settings to "GB" or "US"
echo "1 0.2 3.1" | awk '{ print $3*$2 }'
works as expected.
At this point I have to thank Mark Jenkinson from the Oxford FSL team who
suggested the work around and came up with the idea that the regional
setting might cause the problems ...
Best wishes,
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