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