# Gleb Peregud 2009-05-03: > Currently I'm concerned about [...] and the way of creating format > string "%.NNe", where NN is precision. How can it be improved? Using asterisk for precision: $ printf "%.*f\n" 3 33.33 33.330 $ printf "%.*f\n" 6 33.33 33.330000 HTH, -- Jachym