Hello all.
Can anyone tell me how, in a script, I can ensure a variable is treated as
base 10? I've looked at the bash man page, and found it a little (as Anand
would put it) "hard to parse".
>From the man page:
Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal num-
bers. A leading 0x or 0X denotes hexadecimal. Otherwise,
numbers take the form [base#]n, where base is a decimal
number between 2 and 36 representing the arithmetic base,
and n is a number in that base. If base is omitted, then
base 10 is used.
Trouble is, I don't ever use numbers explicitely, only through variables,
and as they refer to dates, often have a leading '0', and are interpreted as
octal, so break if they are > 07. I can't seem to use any sort of
'[10#]`cut..`' or '[10#]$var'..
TIA.
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