Commifying Numbers in Linux: Not as Easy as it Looks
Today I had a need to process large numbers of PostgreSQL database tables and report how many rows were in each. Once I had that information, I needed to do some additional math on this data and then print it out in a nice formatted manner. And for reasons I won't go into, I had to use shell. But it was all very trivial...until I got to that last part. It involves commification. Is that even a word? My browser's spell...
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