You're just missing a comma after the format string, e.g.
awk -F'[:_\t]' '{ printf "%s\t%4.0f\t%4.0f\t%s\n", "chr"
2-1, 
1":"$2"_"$3"_"$4 }' file
# ^
# |
# this one
University of Utah
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AWK Language Programming - Printing Output
Instead of supplying explicit width and/or prec values in the format string, you pass them in the argument list. For example: w = 5 p = 3 s = "abcdefg" printf "%*.*s\n", w, p, s ... Both programs output `**abc'. Earlier versions of awk did not support this capability.
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Printf Examples (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
awk 'BEGIN { printf "%-10s %s\n", "Name", "Number" printf "%-10s %s\n", "----", "------" } { printf "%-10s %s\n", $1, $2 }' mail-list
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AWK - Pretty Printing
For %g and %G, trailing zeros are not removed from the result. The following example describes this − ... [jerry]$ awk 'BEGIN { printf "Octal representation = %#o\nHexadecimal representaion = %#X\n", 10, 10 }'
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Printf Examples - The GNU Awk User's Guide
The following is a simple example of how to use printf to make an aligned table: awk '{ printf "%-10s %s\n", $1, $2 }' BBS-list · This command prints the names of the bulletin boards ($1) in the file BBS-list as a string of 10 characters that are left-justified.
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You're just missing a comma after the format string, e.g.
awk -F'[:_\t]' '{ printf "%s\t%4.0f\t%4.0f\t%s\n", "chr"2-1, 1":"$2"_"$3"_"$4 }' file
# ^
# |
# this one
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I can't reproduce your problem at all but assuming it does exist this may help you:
$ cat tst.awk
BEGIN { OFS="\t"; OFMT="%d" }
{
split($1,f,/[:_]/)
print "chr"f[1], f[2]-1, f[2], $1
}
$ awk -f tst.awk file
chr10 100000624 100000625 10:100000625_A_G
chr10 100000644 100000645 10:100000645_A_C
chr10 100002463 100002464 10:100002464_C_T
chr10 100003241 100003242 10:100003242_G_T
chr10 100003303 100003304 10:100003304_A_G
chr10 10000337 10000338 10:10000338_C_T
chr10 100003515 100003516 10:100003516_A_G
chr10 100003784 100003785 10:100003785_C_T
chr10 100004359 100004360 10:100004360_A_G
chr10 100004440 100004441 10:100004441_C_G
If %d format doesn't do what you need but %4.0f does, then just change OFMT="%d" to OFMT="%4.0f".
That stuff you mention about the first column being pushed down and the 4th column being truncated probably means you have DOS line endings in your input, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45772525/why-does-my-tool-output-overwrite-itself-and-how-do-i-fix-it.
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Examples of printf Formatting
echo 123.4567 55.2 | awk '{printf "%.3f ", $1; print $2}' 123.457 55.2
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Print Examples (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
NOTE: You can continue either a print or printf statement simply by putting a newline after any comma (see awk Statements Versus Lines).
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The syntax for printf is: ... The ... width of the field. Positive Width: Right-justified by default. For example, s formats a string, right-aligned, with a minimum width of 10 characters....
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awk '{ printf ( "%-14s %8.3f\n", $1, $2 ); }' data
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The GAWK Manual - Printing Output
For example: w = 5 p = 3 s = "abcdefg" printf "<%*.*s>\n", w, p, s ... Both programs output `<**abc>'. (We have used the bullet symbol "*" to represent a space, to clearly show you that there are two spaces in the output.) Earlier versions of awk did not support this capability.
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April 21, 2024 - "\n" : "\t"); }' awk -F ";" ' { for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) printf $i ((i==NF) ?
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The 5th comma-separated field from the uptime output is non-existant (on my system at least), which is why you keep getting zero. The 5-minute uptime is the second-to-last field, so this works:
uptime | awk '{printf "%.0f\n",$(NF-1)}'
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Simplest version (use built-in awk printf - kudos Dennis Williamson):
uptime |awk -F, '{printf "%0.f\n",$5}'
Original answer: Run it through xargs instead.
uptime |awk -F, '{print $5}' |xargs printf "%0.f\n"
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20 awk examples – Linux Hint
The following example shows the use of awk command with sed command. Here, sed command will search all employee names starts with ‘J’ and passes to awk command as input. awk will print employee name and ID after formatting. $ cat employee.txt $ sed -n '/J/p' employee.txt | awk -F '\t' '{ printf "%s(%s)\n", $2, $1 }'
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An Awk Primer/Output with print and printf - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
BEGIN { x = 35; printf("x = %d decimal, %x hex, %o octal.\n", x, x, x) } ... The format codes in this example include: "%d" (specifying decimal output), "%x" (specifying hexadecimal output), and "%o" (specifying octal output).
Blogger
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AWK scripting: 8 AWK printf statements examples ~ Coding Mania
Example 8: Make the column element with 4 digits and 7 in length and print the number to right hand side. awk '{printf "|%7.4d|%7.4d|%7.4d|\n", $2,$3,$4}' db.txt
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Printf Examples (The GNU Awk User’s Guide) - Get docs
awk 'BEGIN { print "Name Number" print "---- ------" } { printf "%-10s %s\n", $1, $2 }' mail-list · The preceding example mixes print and printf statements in the same program. Using just printf statements can produce the same results: awk 'BEGIN { printf "%-10s %s\n", "Name", "Number" printf ...
Earthly
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Understanding AWK - Earthly Blog
July 19, 2023 - So my print $15 "\t" $13 "\t" $8 becomes printf "%s \t %s \t %s", $15, $13, $8. From there I can add right padding and fix my layout by changing %s to %-Ns where N is my desired column width: $ awk -F '\t' \ '$4 == "0439023483" { printf "%s ...
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Printing awk Output in the Same Line | Baeldung on Linux
March 18, 2024 - $ awk '{ printf "%s%s", NR==1 ?
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Examples Using printf
awk 'BEGIN { print "Name Number" print "---- ------" } { printf "%-10s %s\n", $1, $2 }' BBS-list · The above example mixed print and printf statements in the same program.
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The GNU Awk User’s Guide
Printing Output, describes how awk programs can produce output with print and printf.