Generate Zeropadded Ranges

Need to generate 100 directories, named 01/ to 99/? Today I learned that command line brace expansion supports zeropadded (starting with one or more zeroes) ranges. The following command will create 100 zeropadded, numbered directories:

$ mkdir {01..99}

Hit tab to see the expanded command.

The second zeropad, if there is one, can be omitted— the following creates a range of 01-05, even thought there's no zero in front of the 5:

$ mkdir {01..5}


Which expands to:

$ mkdir 01 02 03 04 05

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