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# 8  
Old 09-06-2016
Thank you Don Cragun for the ideas.

It is so, that unfortunately many of our Scripts in HP-UNIX had simply used the %s (for example %011s) in awk-printf statements (without having to check if the column values were integers or strings) . Now they need to be handled differently when migrating to Linux and calls for too much testing Smilie
# 9  
Old 09-06-2016
Linux:
Code:
$ /usr/bin/printf "%05s\n" 123
/usr/bin/printf: %05s: invalid conversion specification

---------- Post updated at 09:12 ---------- Previous update was at 08:11 ----------

Perhaps you can repair your shell scripts with the following:
Code:
perl -i.orig -pe 'while (s/(printf\s+(['\''][^'\'']*|["][^"]*)%)0(\d+s)/$1$3/){}' filename...

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Old 10-04-2016
Thank you all. The scripts have been adjusted and tested and all is fine again. It made sense to assume that only a number would need to be filled with '0's in the beginning and we changed most %0<n>s to %0<n>d. Only in a couple of cases there was some alphabets involved. They had to be handled separately.

Thanks again for all responses.Smilie
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