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Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:44:50 -0400 |
> I'v found something that I think should be considered as bug.
It's not. Look at the Bash FAQ, question E8.
> Somebody added support for octal numbers into bash, and thus made it
> backward incompatible with Bourne and Korn shells.
POSIX.2 requires that octal constants be recognized as in C.
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