Input handling and formatting input to shell

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Input handling and formatting input to shell

i want to get input and depending on it create new commands for input to expect.
But problem is that after giving date or month as 01-09 it is interpretation as 1-9

Code:

echo -n "ENTER DATE "
read d1
echo -n "ENTER MONTH "
read m1
echo -n "ENTER YEAR"
read y1

o=1
i=1
d2=`expr $d1 + 1`
while [ $i -lt $d2 ]
do

d"$o"="ls nc*$i$m1$y1* | wc -l"
echo "$(d$o) \c" >> input_to_expect.txt  ########### done for testing purpose only###
i=`expr $i + 1`
o=`expr $o + 1`

done

the expectd output in input_to_expect.txt is

Code:

ls nc*010412* | wc -l    ls nc*020412* | wc -l   ###########and so on as per input####

the actual output required is
the value of d1,d2.......dn ( as per i/p) should be as fallows so that it can be forwarded to expect

Quote:

d1 = ls nc*010412* | wc -l
d2= ls nc*020412* | wc -l
.
.
.
.$dn= ls nc*$i$m1$y1* | wc -l

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Try the Shell typeset command to declare all the variables which need to have leading zeros (and that includes $i and $o in your script).

Code:

typeset -Z2 var
var=3
echo $var

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