> Oh, and that language switch from bash to python is a huge risk. I was thinking about that and I came up with sed 's/^0*//' as an alternative to the Pyth

> Oh, and that language switch from bash to python is a huge risk. I was thinking about that and I came up with sed 's/^0*//' as an alternative to the Python program. Another option that works for the same purpose is xargs -n1 expr 0 + Edit: There's an earlier subthread with several options for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19160875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19160875