At 4:02 PM -0500 10/24/09, Harry Putnam wrote:
With this little script, how would I manage to get the shorter
timestamps zero padded using printf?  I now how to get padded numbers
but not when I'm pushing off the right margin too.

cat script.pl

  #!/usr/local/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use warnings;

  while (my $file = shift @ARGV){
    my @stat = stat $file;
    printf "%11d %s\n",$stat[9],  $file;
  }

I am not clear on what you are asking. You would use the format conversion '%011d' to zero-pad a number to fill 11 characters, but you say you know that already. Can you give an example of your desired output?


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