How can I feed a string to awk for the purpose of mathemtical calcuation?
#!/bin/sh --
expression_to_evaluate='12 + 3'
printf '%sn' "Arithemtic Expansion: $(( $expression_to_evaluate ))"
printf '%s' 'bc: '
printf '%sn' "$expression_to_evaluate" | bc
printf '%s' 'awk: '
awk -v expression_to_evaluate="$expression_to_evaluate" -- 'BEGIN{printf "%dn", expression_to_evaluate}'
Output:
Arithemtic Expansion: 15
bc: 15
awk: 12
awk
is returning 12 instead of 15. How can I feed a string to awk
for the purpose of mathematical calculation?
awk posix math
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#!/bin/sh --
expression_to_evaluate='12 + 3'
printf '%sn' "Arithemtic Expansion: $(( $expression_to_evaluate ))"
printf '%s' 'bc: '
printf '%sn' "$expression_to_evaluate" | bc
printf '%s' 'awk: '
awk -v expression_to_evaluate="$expression_to_evaluate" -- 'BEGIN{printf "%dn", expression_to_evaluate}'
Output:
Arithemtic Expansion: 15
bc: 15
awk: 12
awk
is returning 12 instead of 15. How can I feed a string to awk
for the purpose of mathematical calculation?
awk posix math
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#!/bin/sh --
expression_to_evaluate='12 + 3'
printf '%sn' "Arithemtic Expansion: $(( $expression_to_evaluate ))"
printf '%s' 'bc: '
printf '%sn' "$expression_to_evaluate" | bc
printf '%s' 'awk: '
awk -v expression_to_evaluate="$expression_to_evaluate" -- 'BEGIN{printf "%dn", expression_to_evaluate}'
Output:
Arithemtic Expansion: 15
bc: 15
awk: 12
awk
is returning 12 instead of 15. How can I feed a string to awk
for the purpose of mathematical calculation?
awk posix math
#!/bin/sh --
expression_to_evaluate='12 + 3'
printf '%sn' "Arithemtic Expansion: $(( $expression_to_evaluate ))"
printf '%s' 'bc: '
printf '%sn' "$expression_to_evaluate" | bc
printf '%s' 'awk: '
awk -v expression_to_evaluate="$expression_to_evaluate" -- 'BEGIN{printf "%dn", expression_to_evaluate}'
Output:
Arithemtic Expansion: 15
bc: 15
awk: 12
awk
is returning 12 instead of 15. How can I feed a string to awk
for the purpose of mathematical calculation?
awk posix math
awk posix math
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