insert a dot in between a number string
 

Input
146870984704
1166734995456
3956629118976
75278372864

Output
146.870984704
1166.734995456
3956.629118976
75.278372864

Have to insert a dot after 9th position from last character.
OR Is there a way to convert bytes to GB format

where is this list from? commands like df or du have switches to display result in GB format.
from the other hand you can use sed/awk/perl/python/whatever to do that. Which one do you prefer?

Need the disk space usage details on all the drives of a windows box from unix command line
The command which i have used displays in bytes, need it in GB


WMIC LOGICALDISK GET Name,Size,FreeSpace,FileSystem

Caption FileSystem FreeSpace Size

C: NTFS 146870984704 179980595200

D: NTFS 1166734995456 1319847849984

F: NTFS 3956629118976 22430185676800

G: NTFS 75278372864 900015845376

Grab your favourite language and divide by either 1000 or 1024 until you get your required result. You can do it the way you wish as well with simple text manipulation.

10.1. Manipulating Strings

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

you forgot to say which language you need to do this in.

Member Response
 

What command are you using? For instance if you're using df, there is a human readable format argument:

It seems you have these values as strings (originally extracted from a MSWin system), so 3 options:

As above, if you can mount them from a Linux box, then 'df -h'.

If not, string manipulation using 'rev' eg
and the links from BW-userx.

You're probably better to calc it as per grail.