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Re: Strange bug in arithmetic function
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Pierre Gaston |
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Re: Strange bug in arithmetic function |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:43:10 +0200 |
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Marcel de Reuver <marcel@de.reuver.org>wrote:
> In a bash script I use: $[`date --date='this week' +'%V'`%2] to see if
> the week number is even.
> Only in week 08 the error is: bash: 08: value too great for base
> (error token is "08") the same in week 09, all others are Ok...
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> GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> Running Ubutu 2.6.24-28 server
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> This is a feature, numbers with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal.
also $[ ] is deprecated, prefer $(( ))