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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