On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Felix Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It looks like you might be using single quotes and not back-ticks (on > the ~ key). > > This works for me, with the echo in there at least. > > for i in `seq 1 125`; do j=`printf %06d $i`; echo montage -geometry +4+4 > > a_$j.jpeg b_$j.jpeg c_$j.jpeg d_$j.jpeg montage$j.jpeg; done
BTW - you can do away with "printf" and tell seq itself to format the output using "-f %06g". Notice that "seq" only accepts "f", "e" or "g", not "d". So the above will translate to: for j in `seq -f %06g 1 125`; do echo montage -geometry +4+4 a_$j.jpeg b_$j.jpeg c_$j.jpeg d_$j.jpeg montage$j.jpeg; done Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
