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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Any time I need to do floating point in a script I pipe it to “bc –l”. Maybe not the most elegant way to do things but it works.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Randy Ramsdell<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 07, 2012 8:28 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> ale@ale.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Awk question</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Haven't had time to work on this. Spent much time on it and had to move on. Thanks for the replies so far. Now I just have to think 'floating point' but
will at least get the formula down. I was simply trying to do this all in awk instead of the pipe everything to another program to handle the respective pieces.
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On 02/07/2012 07:31 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">You are right. That is why I sent my reply with the correct solution. I was thinking that my emails were not getting to the list until Jim replied to a post I made on another
thread.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Feb 6, 2012 2:55 PM, "Geoffrey Myers" <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" moz-do-not-send="true">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Erik Mathis wrote:<br>
> awk '{sum+=$2} END {print sum}' filename<br>
> 310<br>
> awk '{subt-=$2} END {print subt}' filename<br>
> -310<br>
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Seems to me that will total all the records. The OP only want's the<br>
last two as I recall.<br>
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><br>
> Stolen and hacked from <a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
http://www.commandlinefu.com</a><br>
><br>
> -Erik-<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Randy Ramsdell <<a href="mailto:rramsdell@activedg.com" moz-do-not-send="true">rramsdell@activedg.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I need to parse a file and then subtract next to last line field $2<br>
>> from the last line field $2 using awk and then convert this number to a<br>
>> percent.<br>
>><br>
>> Data:<br>
>><br>
>> $date 100<br>
>> $date 103<br>
>> $date 107<br>
>><br>
>> So ... ( 107 - 103 ) / 103 ...<br>
>><br>
>> Clues?<br>
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