Re: bash man page needs more examples...(i.e. >0)

[Pierre Gaston]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
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> DJ Mills wrote:
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>>> OK. �How about if that sentence began with `When specifying n, the
>>> digits greater ...'?
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>> declare -i foo; foo=20#a2; echo "$foo"
>> 202
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>> [base#]n, 'base' is a INTEGER 2-64, then '#', followed by the number.
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> ^^^ That's much more clear!

But then one could think that the integer 0xa is a valid base which is
not the case since it's not a decimal number