sh script help with numeric values 
    Ernie Luzar 
    luzar722 at gmail.com
       
    Wed Feb  3 03:39:05 UTC 2016
    
    
  
Hello list
I am having trouble getting leading zeros to show up.
The following is an example of what i mean.
   dirname="dir"
   dup_count=000
   dup_times=5
   while [ "${dup_count}" -ne "${dup_times}" ]; do
       dup_count=$(( $dup_count + 001 ))
       dname="${dirname}-${dup_count}"
       echo "${dname}"
   done
Outputs this
dir-1
dir-2
dir-3
dir-4
dir-5
What I really want to see is this
dir-001
dir-002
dir-003
dir-004
dir-005
dir-013
dir-111
ect
How do I get the leading zeros to show?
Thanks for your help
    
    
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