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
>
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