Hi
I want to create a file eg: newfile.txt
from myfile.txt
data inside myfile.txt :
01 abc
02 abc
Need this in newfile.txt:
01 abc
02 abc
03 abc
04 abc
& so on upto 99 abc

There are any number of ways to do this:

#!/bin/ksh
integer x=9

cp myfile.txt newfile.txt

stop=99
start=2
while (($start < $stop))
do
((start+=1))
if (( $start <= $x ))
then
printf "0%d abc\n" $start >> newfile.txt
else
printf "%d abc\n" $start >> newfile.txt
fi
done

Thanks Nails

Hi Nails
I get a syntax error at line 15: `done' unexpected

I'm not having a problem. I even cut-and-pasted the code posted here into my Solaris system, and it works.

Are you sure that you didn't drop the 'do' statement:

while (($start < $stop))
do
.
.