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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Generate numbers 000 to 999 Post 302509211 by fpmurphy on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 09:45:24 AM
Old 03-30-2011
No need to call external utilities such as seq. The following works for ksh93 and bash.
Code:
for i in {0..999} 
do
    printf "%03d\n" $i
done

or even simpler
Code:
printf "%03d\n" {0..999}

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SEQ(1)									FSF								    SEQ(1)

NAME
seq - print a sequence of numbers SYNOPSIS
seq [OPTION]... LAST seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST DESCRIPTION
Print numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT. -f, --format=FORMAT use printf style floating-point FORMAT (default: %g) -s, --separator=STRING use STRING to separate numbers (default: ) -w, --equal-width equalize width by padding with leading zeroes --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If FIRST or INCREMENT is omitted, it defaults to 1. FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are interpreted as floating point values. INCREMENT should be positive if FIRST is smaller than LAST, and negative otherwise. When given, the FORMAT argument must contain exactly one of the printf- style, floating point output formats %e, %f, %g AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for seq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and seq programs are properly installed at your site, the command info seq should give you access to the complete manual. seq (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 SEQ(1)
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