Hi

im creating lots of log files, Im writing a script to number them and scp them to a remote server,
the files need to be called 0001.log 0002.log etc etc

in my script I made a counter variable

$counter=00001

I tried adding a number to the variable like this
$counter=`echo "$counter + 1" | bc`

but this gives me 2 not 0002

i tried with perl also $counter++


does anyone know a simple way to imrement but keep the leding 0's ??

Thanks