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Old 01-06-2009
harry0013 harry0013 is offline
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I tried to test the below code but it is showing me odd results

data=`printf "%03d" $1`
echo $data

Sample test:
> findlog.sh 001
001
> findlog.sh 020
016
> findlog.sh 035
029
> findlog.sh 099
printf: 099: not completely converted
000