On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:18:59PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
>      Command               Result in /bin/ksh   Result in /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
>      echo $((010+10 ))     20                   18
>      echo $((010+10 ))     29                   error
>      [ 10 -le $((011)) ]   true                 false
> 
> 
> Which doesn't make a lot of  sense since the  first 2 examples are the
> same,  but  I don't   think  the difference  caused the  error message
> originally reported.

I'm guessing that's a typo and that the second command should read:

echo $((019+10 ))

The output makes sense in that case. I guess like perl, 0-prefixing in
XPG4 shell is supposed to be octal.

I have no idea what this thread is about. I just like making fun of
/usr/xpg4 on Solaris...
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