Re: [SLUG] bash (v1) arithmetic

[Conrad Parker]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:17:42PM +1000, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
> >From the man page:
> 
>        numbers  take  the  form [base#]n, where base is a decimal
>        number between 2 and 36 representing the arithmetic  base,
> 
> octal, so break if they are > 07. I can't seem to use any sort of
> '[10#]`cut..`' or '[10#]$var'..

$[10#$var]

('$[...]' being arithmetic context)

Conrad.


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