: > I thought of 'seq' but didnt remember the -q. Neat. But say I want a : > string length of 5 (00000) for seq num from 1 to 100, it wont do it. It : > would show 001 .. 100 not 00001 .. 00100. : : Easy: : seq -f "%05g" 1 100 Too cool! Thanks for the trick Mordy! I'm going to put this in my bag of shell tricks. Heh! -Martin