On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Greg Wooledge on 11/4/2009 6:23 AM:
> > On the other hand, removing a single leading zero is not difficult:
> >
> > month=$(date +%m) month=${month#0} # Removing leading 0
>
> Not portable. Assigning the same variable twice in the same sta
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According to Greg Wooledge on 11/4/2009 6:23 AM:
> On the other hand, removing a single leading zero is not difficult:
>
> month=$(date +%m) month=${month#0} # Removing leading 0
Not portable. Assigning the same variable twice in the same statem
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 05:37:45PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dobromir Romankiewicz wrote:
> > bash: 0008: value too great for base (error token is "0008").
> Numbers with leading zeros are read as octal constants. Octal is
> composed of '0' through '7'. The number '8' is too large to be an
> oc
