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Subject:	Re: Rounding off real (floating point) values - bash to awk
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Lester Anderson wrote:
> x=3.7
> awk -v x=$x 'BEGIN { printf "%3.0f\n", x }'
> which returns the value 4 as expected, but are there any other methods
> that can be used?

echo 3.7 | awk '{printf "%.0f", $0}'

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