Re: $((expr)) allows the hexadecimal constant "0x"

[Zachary Santer]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 9:26 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> Part of the issue here is that distros -- Red Hat, at least -- never
> upgrade the version of bash they started with. Red Hat will `support'
> bash-4.2 as long as they support RHEL 7.
To be fair to the Red Hat people, "my scripts used to work and now
they don't" is the issue they're trying to avoid, at least within a
release.