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Old 01-06-2009
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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It's a strange behaviour of the built-in printf statement in ksh, try it with awk:

Code:
data=`echo $1 | awk '{printf "%03d", $0}'`
echo $data
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