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		pwg on Feb 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problem solving with Unix commands The seq provided in the GNU toolset has a -w flag to turn on "equal width" mode, so one can also get zero padded numbers out (from GNU seq) by turning on that mode and zero padding the input: $ seq -w 0001 0003 0001 0002 0003 $

anc84 on Feb 15, 2019 [–]

Nice, this works automatically like this:

    $ seq -w 98 102
    098
    099
    100
    101
    102

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