Alexandre Campo wrote: > Anyway, here is my problem (bash 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ echo `printf "%02d" 08` > bash: printf: 08: invalid number > 00 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ echo `printf "%02d" 04` > 04 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ > > > printf refuses to format 08 ... and not 04. Took a look at the code, but > problem was not obvious. > Gdb would be useful I guess. > > Please let me know if you can reproduce this problem, if you need more > information, and if you have a solution :-) > Thanks for your attention. > Alexandre Campo >
This is not a bug, because strings beginning with '0' are considered octal numbers, but 08 is not a valid octal number. Li Zefan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
