Is there a way to force preceeding zero's into the echo statement for integers? See example:

$ MYVAR=0001
$ echo $MYVAR
0001
$ ((MYVAR=MYVAR+1))
$ echo $MYVAR
2

I know I could do his with a shell by comparing the length of the variable and adding zero's, but thought there was an option that could be set to do this automatically.

With Korn Shell use 'typeset -Z'
Seems that there is no equivalent with bash.

Thanks ! I am using Korn, and it works great.