On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Description:
bash-expr problems...
if a=500 i expect "c: 500", but produce 320
if a="z" i expect "c: 0", but produce 40
[...]
Repeat-By:
# a=500; b="0$[a]"; c=$[b]; echo -e "a: $a\nb: $b\nc: $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> # a=500; b="0$[a]"; c=$[b]; echo -e "a: $a\nb: $b\nc: $c\n"
> a: 500
> b: 0500
> c: 320
man bash, under ARITHMETIC EVALUATION:
Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal numbers.
paul
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Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../
