Hi Listmates, Current code: CURNUM=`ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled|cut -d- -f1|tail -1` NEWNUM=`expr $CURNUM + 1` NUMLEN=`expr length $NEWNUM` if [ -z $CURNUM ] then FID="001" elif [ $NUMLEN -eq "1" ] then FID="00$NEWNUM" elif [ $NUMLEN -eq "2" ] then FID="0$NEWNUM" elif [ $NUMLEN -eq "3" ] then FID=$NEWNUM Fi Basically searches /etc/apache2/sites-enabled for filenames that are like: 001-site1 002-site2 And finds last value and then adds +1 to it. Let or expr doesn't want to work with numbers starting with 0, makes sense, but I haven't found a way to force it either, so I'm wondering if there is a clever solution to this, bash-wise, or this should do it ? (taking there won't be 4 digits of sites; more likely it will not hit 2 digits, but better be safe than sorry!) Thanks. -- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org