Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:50:29 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> Cc: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Padding expr output Message-ID: <3E0679F5.7020508@rogers.com> References: <BA2B968D.57E9%kkb@breathhost.net>
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Kurt Bigler wrote:
>on 12/22/02 3:57 PM, BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I am usiung expr in a shell script and need to pad it's output to
>>always be 3 characters. An example will explain thing better:
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>>% expr 007 + 1
>>Output is 8
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>>I need the output to be 008
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>>I checked the expr man page, but nothing there solves my problem.
>>Anyone out there got one?
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>Don't use expr to do the formatting.
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>Use some sprintf-like capability in some scripting language that supports
>full functionality from the command-line. I think both awk and perl have
>that capability in some form. (Maybe someone else can be more specific.)
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> Kurt Bigler
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>>Thanks in advance....
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In bash:
i=8
while [ ${#i} -lt "3" ]
do
i="0"${i}
done
echo $i
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