printf bad ?

[Peter]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Jason Shein wrote:

>> (according to the bash manual that notation should force decimal - it
>> does not - not in quotes and not in ticks and not with a
>> backslash-escaped '#').
>>
>
> Take a look here
> http://colton.byuh.edu/courses/tut/printf.pdf
>
> printf "%05d",08  produces    00000,08
> printf "%05d",8    produces    00000,8
> printf "%05d"8     produces    0000008
> printf "%05d".8    produces    000000.8

Thanks, that helped,
Peter

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