On Tue, 8 May 2012, Gerry wrote:
> I'd get rid of the epensive bash call. :-)
>
> #! /usr/bin/awk -f
> BEGIN {printf("%.1f kg/m²\n", 703.06958*ARGV[2]/ARGV[1]^2)}
Thanks. That will be much faster and easier on the system. ;-)
Thanks also to you and Jason for pointing out that I forgot the newline.
I always do that, but usually I catch it because I get some
horrible-looking output. I have a newline built into my prompt and I
didn't notice that I was missing my empty line.
I didn't know I could write an awk script that way (awk shebang). That's
good to know.
Mike