On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:26:37PM +, David O'Brien wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
arithmetic expression: expecting ')': ( 09 - 1 ) /
I have a construct in a shell script that I had been using under
stable/8 (most recently, @r240259), but which throws an error under
stable/9 (at least as early as @r238602):
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
3
$ uname -r
8.3-PRERELEASE
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.orgwrote:
$ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
happens with 07 in place of 09.
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brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com
wandering unix
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:20:07PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.orgwrote:
$ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
happens with 07 in place of 09.
As (I) expected, it's
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
I have a construct in a shell script that I had been using under
stable/8 (most recently, @r240259), but which throws an error under
stable/9 (at least as early as @r238602):
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
3
$
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
...
Is this intentional?
Yes, it was changed with r216547, December 2010.
This was done to avoid an inconsistency where constants starting with
0 and containing 8 or 9 were decimal, so something like
$((018-017)) expanded
On 21/09/2012 1:20 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.orgwrote:
$ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
happens with 07 in place of 09.
Interestingly enough, bash gives a proper
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
arithmetic expression: expecting ')': ( 09 - 1 ) / 3 + 1
...
This was done to avoid an inconsistency where constants
