[PLUG] bash decimal interpretation
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Wed Dec 3 02:54:02 UTC 2003
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> It'll just overflow the width. "5" becomes "05", but "123" becomes
> "123". It does, however, beg the question of "why pad if you don't know
> how wide you want it?"
Well, it's that I want it all the same length. So I have to figure out
the length of the longest one and pad to that. -w does this for me.
It's not that I don't know how long I want it, I just don't know yet.
J.
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