ken wrote:

> This is what I get on Linux running on an i686.
> 
> Bash should be smart enough to know that 09 = 9
> -- and it does sometimes, but not all the time.
> Surprise!!

>From the bash manual:

"Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal numbers.  A leading 0x
or 0X denotes hexadecimal."

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