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fris · 11-02-2010, 06:39 AM

anyone know a shortway to parse numbers with commas in bash?

ex: 1000
becomes 1,000

and so on

this is what im using, it works, but wondering if theirs anything shorter

Code:

echo 10000 | sed -r ':L;s=\b([0-9]+)([0-9]{3})\b=\1,\2=g;t L'

11-02-2010, 06:39 AM
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