RFE: 0-padding in numbering archived file names

[sphakka]

For better lexical ordering, I'd like to have numbering of archived file names padded with leading zeroes, i.e.

foo-bar.04.gz

instead of

foo-bar.4.gz

The corresponding option should be a switch. The padding should depend on the rotate value, so that, if we're rotating >=10 times, two zeros should be prepended, etc.

[kdudka]

What are you going to use the lexical ordering for?

[sphakka]

Basic (manual) admin tasks... and don't like much the dateext option.

[kdudka]

Could you be more specific?

For the manual tasks I know of, ls -v, sort -V, or zsh's NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT work just fine.