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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Left padding in Unix Post 302581696 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 10:39:16 PM
Old 12-13-2011
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
lpad()
{
   if [ $# -eq 3 ] ; then
     echo "$1" | awk -v pad="$2" -v len=$3 '{
        if(length($0) >= len) {print $0; exit}
        for(i=0;i<len - length($0);i++) { tmp=tmp pad }
        print tmp $0 }'
   else
     echo "Invalid parms for lpad" > 2   
   fi
}

# usage / test
val=$(lpad "test string" "0" 14); echo "$val"
val=$(lpad 1234 "#"  4);  echo "$val"
val=$(lpad 1234 "#"  8);  echo "$val"

 

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