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Old 02-04-2013
Shell Printf command , a little more dynamic..

A big hello to everyone tagged to this site of knowledge . This is the first post of mine and I am looking forward to an enjoyable stint in this forum where I get to know a lot of new ideas and share whatever knowledge (its not much though Smilie ) I have acquired throughout my career so far with y'all.

To start of , I am , in a sort of stuck in a strange situation.
The requirement is to format a string to a precision , which is will be dynamic .

Lets say the string's 976461 , and we have to format it to a precision of 10 , and LEFT PAD it with zero's. So the output would be 0000976461 .

What I did is to store the precision in a Shell variable (say a ) using the following code :
Code:
a=10

and the string in another Shell variable b using :
Code:
b=976461

and use the printf command to format the string to the precision stored in variable a , and finally write the output to variable c using
Code:
c=` printf "%0'$a'd" $b`

Now , when I echo the value of c, it showing 000976,461.

Can anyone help me with this ?

Thanks
Kumarjit.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-04-2013 at 05:02 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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