> I once had the need to format a number with leading zeros.  (I wanted
> the script file to create file names like file001, file002, ... file010,

You might try echoing the text rhrough printf, or getting the output of
printf %4d $i into another shell variable for execution. Echoing the 
valur to printf deosn't seem to work; that jsut prints zeros on my
system.

> Randy Kramer
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