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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Using variables to copy files with increasing numerical names. Post 303044943 by MadeInGermany on Monday 9th of March 2020 11:16:50 AM
Old 03-09-2020
Good to know. Bash was first with brace expansion, now ksh and zsh are ahead. Let's see when bash will catch up again.
BTW, Bash-4 has got a number + field alignment expansion:
Code:
echo {01..10}
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

that ksh-93 has NOT:
Code:
echo {01..10}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

zsh has got it even with variables:
Code:
zsh$ first=1
zsh$ last=10
zsh$ echo {$first..$last}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
zsh$ first=01
zsh$ echo {$first..$last}
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

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