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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Printf command , a little more dynamic.. Post 302766007 by neutronscott on Monday 4th of February 2013 03:57:10 AM
Old 02-04-2013
Is this exactly how you wrote it? My shell gives an error due to the quoting. Which shell are you using? This works in dash, a mostly posix sh:

Code:
$ a=10 b=976461
$ c=$(printf "%0${a}d" "$b")
$ echo "$c"
0000976461

 

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