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Re: bash 1 liner help



On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:26, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> 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
> 

Ahhh. sweet. I didnt know such a thing existed.

-davidc



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