awk & division

Shell Programming and Scripting
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vmstat|awk '{print $3}'|tail -1

returns

6250511

, but what I need is

24416

, which is

6250511 divided by 256

.

Please advise.

Thank you so much

2

Just do the division before printing:

awk '{print $3/256}'
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YES! that works fine!
Thank you so much.