Craig Sanders wrote: > seq only supports floating point types like f and g in the --format string. > > Other types, including i,d,o,u,x,X would also be useful. > > e.g. "seq --format 'prefix%02isuffix' 1 50" to print zero-padded 1-50 with > user-specified prefix and suffix strings.
IMO custom format strings for pre- or suffixing are not seq's job. The OP wanted a little shell solution to create 50 directories with a fixed prefix and suffix, so what about this? seq -w 50 | sed 's/^/prefix/; s/$/suffix/' | xargs mkdir Have a ncie day, Berny
