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| From: | Paul Jarc |
| Subject: | Re: bash expr problem/bug... 0$val |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:36:30 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
bloodman@trzcianka.eu.org wrote:
> <bash># a=500; b="0$[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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