Re: bash 1 liner help

[Maurits van Rees]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:37:39PM -0400, David Clymer wrote:
> mplayer {08,09,10,11,12}*.ogg

I always like `seq' for things like this. I just discovered the -w
option that is useful here:

$ seq -w 8 12
08
09
10
11
12

So then something like the following can be used:
for i in `seq -w 8 12`; do mplayer "$i*"; done


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