Re:Problem solving with Unix commands
by inp on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:28AM
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You can apply the awk command on a pipe, and so it is applies on each line of the file/stream.
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Right - 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).