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From: Gary Williamson on 17 Jun 2008 02:09
In a shell script I want to echo out some values whcih are not necessarily as wide as they should be.

For example a value of 7 should be display as a field of width 4 with left padded zeros "0":

0007

How can I accomplish this?

Gary
From: Bill Marcum on 17 Jun 2008 03:20
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On 2008-06-17, Gary Williamson <garywill(a)usca.edu> wrote:
>
>
> In a shell script I want to echo out some values whcih are not
> necessarily as wide as they should be.
>
> For example a value of 7 should be display as a field of width 4 with
> left padded zeros "0":
>
> 0007
>
> How can I accomplish this?
>
> Gary

printf "%04d\n" 7
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