"Max Power" <open...@cpnetserver.net> writes:

> Hi,

Hi. Please stop using all-caps mail subjects.

> o.s.: OpenBSD 5.3/amd64
>
> If I create a directory with the command: mkdir $(date +'%d')

You'd better put double quotes around your command substitutions rather
than simple quotes around fixed, non-special strings: "$(date '+%d')"

> why this is the result: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 08, 09, 10, etc.
> Why the '0' [zero] appears only ahead the digit 8 and 9..?

You must have done something wrong:

$ date -j +%d 20137010000
01
$

See strftime(3).

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