On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Scott Dylewski wrote:
I'm running Fedora core 3 on an Athlon, and I get the following problem:
I get an error when running:
echo $(( 008 / 2 ))
In my script, however, I'm passing the value as a variable. when it
gets to 008, I get an error.
Numbers with a leading 0 are treated as octal, i.e. base 8; "8"
and "9" are not legitimate octal digits.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] complex]$ echo $(( 008 / 2 ))
-bash: 008: value too great for base (error token is "008")
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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