Bug#670539: general: error in shell script: 0208: value too great for base (error token is "0208")

[Steffen Erlecke]

Package: general
Severity: normal


I've written some shell scripts. The part giving errors is:

/* CODE BEGIN */
#!/bin/bash
EXITCODE[0101]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0102]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0103]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0104]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0105]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0106]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0201]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0202]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0203]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0204]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0205]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0206]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0207]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0208]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0209]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0210]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0211]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0301]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0302]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0303]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0401]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0402]="XXX"
EXITCODE[0602]="XXX"
EXITCODE[9999]="XXX"

# usage: echoResult RESULTCODE "MESSAGE"
# write the result of the last task on the screen
echoResult()
{
  case $1 in
    1)
      echo -e "\033[55C\033[1A\033[00;32mDone\033[00m"
      ;;
    2)
      echo -e "\033[55C\033[1A\033[01;33mWarning: $2\033[00m"
      ;;
    *)
      echo -e "\033[55C\033[1A\033[00;31mError: ${EXITCODE[$1]}: $2\033[00m"
      exit $1
      ;;
  esac
}

echoResult 0210 "Test-Error"
/* CODE END */

This happens if I call the script:

/* RESULT BEGIN */
root@rescue ~ # ./t.sh
../t.sh: line 15: 0208: value too great for base (error token is "0208")
../t.sh: line 16: 0209: value too great for base (error Error: XXX:
Test-Error
/* RESULT END */

The questions now are: What is the difference from 0208 and 0209 to all other
indices, and why is 0210 and above OK if 0209 is a "too large" value?

BTW: If I use 208 and 209 it works fine without any errors.

I already searched the web for that but didn't find anything. Maybe I
misread the error?

Thanks so far,
Steffen Erlecke


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39.2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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