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Dumb sed trick for converting GB/MB to bytes..
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| # Dumb sed trick for converting GB/MB to bytes.. | |
| # awk would be better for detail work as you can do math | |
| sed 's/\.[0-9] GB/000000000/' Raw_Status.csv |sed 's/\.[0-9] MB/000000/' | sed 's/0\ bytes/0/' > Cooked_Status.cvs |
Sure, this is a hack with sed to give you quick and dirty numbers to work with, please see line 2. YMMV, offer not valid in sectors R and N
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Note that this trick doesn't work when we are dealing with mebibytes = 1024 * 1024 bytes (which is different than the megabyte because that is defined as 1000 * 1000 bytes)