Re: [Help-bash] Arithmetic evaluation / expansion question

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/10/18 8:36 PM, Bruce Hohl wrote:

> I have noted through "observation" (per the original example) that a
> defined variable which holds a string not beginning with zero (non-octal)
> also is "arithmetically" evaluated to zero.  

Think of the variable's value being evaluated as an expression. If a
token that looks like a shell identifer is part of that value, the same
process occurs again.

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