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HI Grant<BR>
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Not too familiar with the seq command. However the %06g is important.<BR>
Can you show me how to incorporate this seq command in a script ? A bit lost on this one I must confess<BR>
Many thanks<BR>
E<BR>
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On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 09:33 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
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How about ...
seq -f 'file%06g.whatever' $X $Y > simple-text-file
Cheers
Grant
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 09:07 +1300, edouard chalaron wrote:
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Hello all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Might be trivial, but as usual it's when you have your glasses on your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> nose that you can't find them. :-/</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Here we go.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> I am a trying to generate a relatively simple text file in which I would</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> find a list such as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> file00000X.whatever</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> .</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> .</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> .</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> .</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> file00000Y.whatever</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Knowing values of X and Y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> A loop from X to Y seems the way to go, but then I have troubles with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> SED / awk</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Any hint ?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Many thanks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Ed.</FONT>
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