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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Numbers with leading zeros Post 302702397 by RudiC on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 09:17:18 AM
Old 09-18-2012
You can't have both. Either you treat the variable as string, then leading zeroes can be retained, but you can't increment, or you treat it as a numeric variable, allowing for increments, but losing leading zeroes. What you can do is using a formated print as @vidyadhar85 suggested to convert your incremented numeric into a string with leading zeroes.
 

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