topic Re: Shell scripting help in Operating System - HP-UX

Shell scripting help

Karthik S S — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:30:08 GMT

Hi,

My file looks like this:

cat 123
70
82.1
12.34
11
10
125

I want to modify the o/p to look like this:
70.00
82.10
12.34
11.00
10.00
125.00

any help is appreciated

thanks,
Karthik S S

Re: Shell scripting help

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:48:24 GMT

Hi:

# cat .reformat
#!/usr/bin/sh
while read NUM X
do
printf "%.2f\n" ${NUM}
done < ./123

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Shell scripting help

Karthik S S — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:54:41 GMT

Thank you! it works :)

Re: Shell scripting help

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:09:46 GMT

Hi (again):

Of course you can type less if you use 'awk':

# awk '{printf "%.2f\n",$1}' file

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Shell scripting help

Karthik S S — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:28:39 GMT

Thank you James, that was very helpful (especially the awk one)
-Karthik