zip "Backup-$I.zip" Path/To/FilesAt the risk of being pedantic (never!), my problem is that I would like to always have the filenames use three digits, it just looks kind of, well, untidy otherwise:
Padded=$(printf "%03d" $I) zip "Backup-$Padded.zip" Path/To/Files/However, this seems to slow things to a crawl. I'm not sure why, but I am guessing that it is creating a new shell instance each time it goes through or something?
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