Re: Bash: Save the "leading 0" in loops

Ralf Corsepius <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.programming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:04 +0100, Oliver Leue wrote:
> Hello all...
> 
> May someone please tell me how it is possible to save the leading 0 in a 
> construct like this:
> 
> for (i=001,i<701,i++); do echo name.$i.doc >> doc_index.txt
> 
> With this the leading 0 get lost and the entries written as name.1.doc, 
> name.10.doc,name.100.doc a.s.o.

man 1 printf
help printf

printf "name.%3.3i.doc\n" $i 

Ralf



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