On Sunday 14 December 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That's why I suggested them :-) I use them a lot, especially when I > > have to run the same set of commands on 15 different hosts, then I do > > something like: > > > > for I in $(seq 1 15) ; do > > If you're using bash or zsh,you can speed this up with > > for I in {1..15}; do
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? -- Regards, Mick
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