On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 02:02:14PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Just pass -v to the builtin printf, e.g.,
> 
> % printf -v foo 'a%03d' 42
> % typeset -p foo
> a042
> % 

Much nicer, wow. Looks like I'll be revising quite a few of my scripts
today.

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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas