Re: [Help-bash] have the same column L

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Val Krem wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> How can I starndarzied string column to have the same column length for each 
> row.
>
> Example
> filename
>
> A135953
> D10036050
> C135858000
>
> I want add leading zeros and the column length should be 10
>
> I tried
> awk '{ printf "%010s \n", $1}' filename

  awk '{ printf "%010d \n", $1}' filename

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