Printing Numbers using Thousand Separators
June 30, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
You can use a pipe to awk to output numbers with
thousands separators (commas). For Example, here’s how you can total the
5th column of the ls -l command and print it with thousands
separators:
$ ls -l | awk '{total = total + $5}END{print total}' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk '{printf("%'"'"'d\n", $0) }'
21,387
This can be adapted to other commands as necessary.