01-16-2002
"typeset" is built into ksh and is documented on the ksh man page which you can display with "man ksh".
"man while" wouldn't display anything either but I hope you're not afraid to use "while" loops.
Doing this without "typeset" is a chore. You need to count the characters in the variable and prepend the appropriate number of zeros.
I can't really post any sample code since I can't be sure which subset of unix tools that you're willing to use.
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let(1) User Commands let(1)
NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions
SYNOPSIS
ksh
let arg...
DESCRIPTION
ksh
Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The value of the last expression is non-zero.
1 The value of the last expression is zero.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)