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# 15  
Old 05-19-2015
The working of the single quote in the printf format statement depends on whether a thousands separator is defined in the locale
Code:
$ ( export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 ; printf "%'.2f\n" 123456 )
123,456.00
$ ( export LC_NUMERIC=C ; printf "%'.2f\n" 123456 )
123456.00

You would need to find out if there are suitable locale on your system (you can list them with locale -a ).
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-20-2015 at 12:08 AM..
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# 16  
Old 05-20-2015
Much thanks to Don Cragun.. I just added locale variable to his last code and it is working fine..

Code:
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US
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