From e541f12bdb7d3c64abeccd21ba504cf0e33e78f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kneutron <50146127+kneutron@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:45:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] slightly longer explanation

---
 commasep-num.mrg | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/commasep-num.mrg b/commasep-num.mrg
index bacff5a..502aea5 100644
--- a/commasep-num.mrg
+++ b/commasep-num.mrg
@@ -11,9 +11,15 @@ function commanum () {
 #[ $(echo $- |grep i |wc -l) -gt 0 ] && 
 [ ! "$1" = "" ] && commanum $1
 
+exit;
+
 # Example usage:
 #$ tmpvar=$(./commasep-num.mrg 80000000000)
 #$ echo $tmpvar
 #80,000,000,000
 # Limitation: it doesn't handle fractional numbers x.xx , just integers - anything after the decimal gets dropped
 # so don't try to display π (pi) with it ;-)
+
+# this appears to work somewhat with fractionals but is not bash-internal:
+#$ echo 1232323.1415927 | awk '{printf(fmt,$1)}' fmt="%'19.19f\n"
+#1,232,323.1415927000343799591