Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:11:16 -0700 From: markham breitbach <markham@ssimicro.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, Freebsd Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sh script help with numeric values Message-ID: <56B18BF4.6030002@ssimicro.com> In-Reply-To: <56B1765D.2060800@gmail.com> References: <56B1765D.2060800@gmail.com>
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I've always liked jot for this sort of thing: dirname="dir" start=0 count=5 for i in `jot -w%03d $count $start`; do echo $dirname-$i done -Markham On 2016-02-02 8:39 PM, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Hello list > > I am having trouble getting leading zeros to show up. > The following is an example of what i mean. > > dirname="dir" > dup_count=000 > dup_times=5 > > while [ "${dup_count}" -ne "${dup_times}" ]; do > dup_count=$(( $dup_count + 001 )) > dname="${dirname}-${dup_count}" > echo "${dname}" > done > > Outputs this > dir-1 > dir-2 > dir-3 > dir-4 > dir-5 > > What I really want to see is this > dir-001 > dir-002 > dir-003 > dir-004 > dir-005 > dir-013 > dir-111 > ect > > How do I get the leading zeros to show? > > Thanks for your help > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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