Package: bash Version: 3.2-4
There were no problems while comparing any numbers in scripts while this version of bash. But... Here is the console: =========quote======== k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 06 > 06 )); then echo lazhaa; fi k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 07 > 06 )); then echo lazhaa; fi lazhaa k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 07 > 07 )); then echo lazhaa; fi k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 08 > 07 )); then echo lazhaa; fi bash: ((: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08") k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 09 > 08 )); then echo lazhaa; fi bash: ((: 09: value too great for base (error token is "09") k...@fish-eye:~$ ========endquote======= As you can see, everything is OK while numbers in brackets are 7 and less. But if one of them are 8 and more, there is an error "value too great for base". The same error is produced by any shell script like this : =======quote=script.sh=========== #! /bin/bash trash="08" lazhaa="09" if (( lazhaa > trash )); then echo lazhaa; fi if (( $lazhaa > $trash)); then echo lazhaa; fi =======endquote=============== output: =======quote=========== ./script.sh: line 4: ((: 09: value too great for base (error token is "09") ./script.sh: line 5: ((: 09: value too great for base (error token is "09") =======endquote========= This behaviour is discovered only when numbers are with leading zeros. That is ======quote=========== k...@fish-eye:~$ if (( 9 > 8 )); then echo lazhaa; fi lazhaa k...@fish-eye:~$ ======endquote======== works as it must. There were no such behaviour in previous versions of bash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
