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On Wednesday 17 December 2008, 23:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:48:52 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Hmm, I tried this with a sequence of files that look like |
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> > name0001stat.txt to name0198stat.txt, but when I run {0001..0198} it |
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> > fails because it seems to ignore the zeros in 0001 and start |
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> > counting from 1. Do I need to use some escape character for this? |
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> No,you just need to use a better shell than bash :P |
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Or just use one of: |
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seq -f '%04g' 1 198 |
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printf '%04d\n' {1..198} |
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name????stat.txt (although this might match more files than wanted) |
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