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by **Telio** » Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:34:55

sup all trying to add to my variable

its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

by **Stephane CHAZELA** » Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:37:11

> sup all trying to add to my variable

> its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

You'd better store 1 in the variable, and only add leading zeros
when you display it.

i=1
i=$(($i + 1))
printf '%.4d\n' "$i"

If you use numbers with leading zeros, they will
be considered as octal numbers in POSIX shells.

If you have
i=0007 and want i=0008, you can do

i=$(awk -v i="$i" 'BEGIN{printf("%.4d", i+1)}')

Chances are that your whole script would be more easily
written in awk or perl, anyway.

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Stphane

by **Bill Marcu** » Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:06:26

On 20 Aug 2003 10:37:11 GMT, Stephane CHAZELAS

>> sup all trying to add to my variable

>> its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

> You'd better store 1 in the variable, and only add leading zeros
> when you display it.

> i=1
> i=$(($i + 1))

In some shells you can write
(( i++ ))

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by **Stephane CHAZELA** » Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:31:28

[...}

Quote:>>> its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

[...]
> In some shells you can write
> (( i++ ))

Not in OP's one. It's not POSIX.

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Stphane

by **Michael Wa** » Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:45:05

>[...}
>>>> its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

>[...]
>> In some shells you can write
>> (( i++ ))

>Not in OP's one. It's not POSIX.

I would think it will be in future version of POSIX.
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by **Kevin Rodger** » Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:09:17

>>[...}

>>>>>its 0001 and i wanna make it 0002 ect.... im using freebsd "sh"

>>[...]

>>>In some shells you can write
>>>(( i++ ))

>>Not in OP's one. It's not POSIX.

> I would think it will be in future version of POSIX.

What leads you to believe that? How does it help the OP?

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