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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:09:08 pm | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:02:17 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
@@ -22,4 +22,10 @@
*awk -v awkvar=$bashvar {print awkvar}
Now you can use awkvar in your awk statements which will have the value of bashvar.
Remember you *CANNOT* change the value of a bash variable using [AWK].
+
+! Floating point output
+you can use printf modifiers to specify the output of numbers, for example
+<verbatim>
+printf "%.02f",a/b
+</verbatim>
