Range with leading zero in bash

Question

How to add leading zero to bash range?
For example, I need cycle 01,02,03,..,29,30
How can I implement this using bash?

possible duplicate of [Zero Padding In Bash](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8789729/zero-padding-in-bash) — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Jul 24 '15 at 16:47

Thor · Answer 1 · 2015-07-13T09:47:56.330

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In recent versions of bash you can do:

echo {01..30}

Output:

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Or if it should be comma separated:

echo {01..30} | tr ' ' ','

Which can also be accomplished with parameter expansion:

a=$(echo {01..30})
echo ${a// /,}

Output:

01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30

edited Jul 13 '15 at 09:47

answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:58

Thor

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '12 at 10:04

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another seq trick will work:

 seq -w 30

if you check the man page, you will see the -w option is exactly for your requirement:

-w, --equal-width
              equalize width by padding with leading zeroes

answered Nov 14 '12 at 10:04

Kent

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:53

7

You can use seq's format option:

seq -f "%02g" 30

answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:53

P.P

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:56

3

A "pure bash" way would be something like this:

echo {0..2}{0..9}

This will give you the following:

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Removing the first 00 and adding the last 30 is not too hard!

answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:56

Neil Winton

1

The only problem with this solution is that it doesn't work easily when you need a range like 000--135. There is no easy way to stop at 135. – Adam Stewart Aug 11 '19 at 20:55

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:51

2

This works:

printf " %02d" $(seq 1 30)

answered Nov 14 '12 at 09:51

mouviciel

5 Answers5