Changed number formatting in awk (scientific notation caused truncate… #2
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… to exit with error)
For some reason in Debian Buster (RPI4) awk returns number in scentific notation, e.g.:
This causes truncate command to exit with error, as it doesn't understand the scentific notation. The workaround is simple to use printf with float format (%d - integer is too small) and cut off decimal places.