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Why even use awk rather than the shell's (well, bash's) builtin printf? $ printf '%d\n' "0005" 5
by darrenf 8y ago
Why even use awk rather than the shell's (well, bash's) builtin printf?
$ printf '%d\n' "0005"
5
- inp 8y agoYou can apply the awk command on a pipe, and so it is applies on each line of the file/stream.
- darrenf 8y agoRight - though that's solvable with xargs: $ echo "0005" | xargs printf '%d\n' 5 That said, my suggestion doesn't work anyway since the leading 0 marks it as octal, d'oh (as mentioned elsewhere in the thread).
- jfk13 8y agoThat might not always do what a naïve user expects: $ printf '%d\n' "0025" 21