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Re:Problem solving with Unix commands by mshook on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:33AM (#19160898)
Yeah plus seq can generate sequences with leading zeroes (something like seq -f %04.f 1 20).

So instead of scripting, he could have generated a sorted list of numbers from the files he had. Created a file with the sequence of numbers for the range and diffed/commed the whole thing. Voilà...

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Re:Problem solving with Unix commands by pwg on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:22AM (#19161622)
The seq provided in the GNU toolset has a -w flag to turn on "equal width" mode, so one can also get zero padded numbers out (from GNU seq) by turning on that mode and zero padding the input:

    $ seq -w 0001 0003
    0001
    0002
    0003
    $
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Re:Problem solving with Unix commands by anc84 on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:01AM (#19169494)
Nice, this works automatically like this:

    $ seq -w 98 102
    098
    099
    100
    101
    102
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Re:Problem solving with Unix commands by lelf on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:37AM (#19160915) 

  seq -f %04g 0 3
  echo {0000..0003} # if bash
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Re:Problem solving with Unix commands by v3gas on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:38AM (#19160923)
Did not know that. Thanks! That's much easier.
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