I am using the following code to read specific lines in an ASCII file "text.dat"
sed -n '/Columnaxis/p' text.dat
The output is
Columnaxis: 100
In order to output only the second part previous line, I added the following to the previous command line:
sed -n '/Columnaxis/p' text.dat | awk '{ print $2 }'
The output of the last command is "100"
How can I update the last code to output negative numbers, regardless of the number's original sign? ( i.e if the input is "+100" I want the code to output "-100" also if the input is "-100", I want the code to output "-100"
PS. The content of text.dat is something like the following :
Columnaxis: 100
Columnaxis_1: 100
Columnaxis_2: -100
Columnaxis_3: 50
Columnaxis_4: -2.3
Columnaxis_5: 1.2
Columnaxis_6: -5
Columnaxis_7: -2
Columnaxis_8: -4
Columnaxis_9: -2
I want the code to output the following:
Columnaxis: -100
Let's say that the input has "Columnaxis: +100", then I want it to be
Columnaxis: -100
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