topic Re: a small query in Operating System - HP-UX

a smalll query

zxcv — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:39:09 GMT

Hi guys,

I have a file say with contents ;

123

345

567

789

i need a o/p like the following ;

2.3

4.5

6.7

8.9

Dennis Handly — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:07:37 GMT

It appears you are taking the second and third columns:

sed -e 's/^.$.$$.$/\1.\2/' file

zxcv — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:18:59 GMT

Hi Dennis ,

u were spot on...but i misundeerstoodd the exact reqmnt...the actual reqmnt given below;

last 2 numbers should be divisible by a fixed number say 500 and it shuld display me the o/p....

Dennis Handly — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:41:54 GMT

>last 2 numbers should be divisible by a fixed number say 500

awk '
{
num = substr($0, 2, 2) # skip first column
print num / 500
} ' file

zxcv — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:20:44 GMT

Thanks Dennis very much :)