Printing Numbers using Thousand Separators

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.

• Cli
• Bash
• Awk
• Motd