The format is: AAA-111Where AAA could be [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z] and 111 can be [0-9][0-9][0-9]Question: How can we write a bash script to generate all the possible variations?
Generate car licence plates
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To avoid using a lot of memory, use nested loops.for az1 in {A..Z}; do    for az2 in {A..Z} _; do        for az3 in {A..Z} _; do            for d1 in {0..9}; do                for d2 in {0..9}; do                    printf $az1$az2$az3-$d1$d2%i\n {0..9}                done            done        done    donedone | sed 's/_*-0*/-/'I added underscores to support optional shorter strings, and remove leading zeros, so you can get results like A-1 and AB-12 as well as the full ABC-123 format. (Check the edit history to see how to undo this.)