enumerate with padding

echo {001..5}
bash2 : for X in $(seq 1 5); do printf "%03g " "$X";done bash3 : for X in {1..5}; do printf "%03g " "$X";done bash4 : echo {001..5}
Sample Output 
001 002 003 004 005

6
By: nanard06
2009-10-29 16:25:44
echo bash
3
Submit An Alternative

What Others Think

Just use the format option for the seq command (which under most linux flavors comes from gnu coreutils), so you don't need a different version for every shell: seq -f %03.f 1 5 001 002 003 004 005
bwoodacre · 840 weeks and 1 day ago
very nice 'seq' usage, i like that !
nanard06 · 840 weeks and 1 day ago
or use seq -w 001 5
hfs · 839 weeks and 2 days ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

You must be signed in to comment.

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands

Similar Commands

Line Separator That is Width of Terminal

Enumerate rubygems environment

Map the slot of an I/O card to its PCI bus address

Printout a list of field numbers from a CSV file with headers as first line.

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for: