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Re: doing simple math in bash :: prb with leading zero
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: doing simple math in bash :: prb with leading zero |
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Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:51:13 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LMD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, ken wrote:
> Doing very simple math in bash fails if a number begins with a zero (0).
Numbers beginning with 0 are base 8 (octal). 08 and 09 are not
valid octal numbers.
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