Adding a zero to single digit variable

Question

Trying to add a zero before the varaible if it\'s less than 10 and create said directory. I can\'t seem to get the zero to add correctly. Keeps resulting in making 02.1.20

Answer 1

$ seq --version | head -1
seq (GNU coreutils) 8.21
$ seq -f "%02g" 1 10
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10