date manipulation

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i am manipulating the date in a unix script as follows:

if [ $Day != 1 ]
then
Month=$(($Month + 1)) && Day=1

if [ $Month = 12 ]
then
Month=1 && Year=$(($Year + 1))
fi
fi


however i want to prefix the result to a filename, however it does not include zeros
eg 20020301 (1st march 2002) would be 200231

can anyone suggest a way to include the 0's

 

[pcunix]

/bin/sh:

Month=`echo $Month | sed 's/0//'`

/bin/ksh

Month=${Month#0}

Tony Lawrence
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