Thanks all, I think this example/workaround will suffice for what I need to do.
-- Paul @ Thy Service > On 2/21/06, G.Wolfe Woodbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:02:10PM -0500, Paul G. Szabady wrote: >> > That's what I thought, but other non-octal combinations work. >> > >> > IE >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ declare -i dirx=88 ; echo $dirx >> > 88 >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ >> >> The leading '0' digit trigger the octal interpretation. There are >> special cases in the code for 09 but 08 seems to have escaped someone's >> notice. The library spec says that 08 should be correctly interpreted. >> >> might be worth filing a bug with your distributions bug site. > > Not sure which library spec you're talking about, but bash seems to be > working as designed if it rejects a constant of 08, and if its > accepting 09 then THAT's a bug. > > Bash on my Ubuntu/debian system doesn't like either 08 or 09 as an > arithmethic literal. And I don't believe that it should. Here's the > relevant paragraph from man bash: > > Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal numbers. A > leading 0x or 0X denotes hexadecimal. Otherwise, numbers take the > form [base#]n, where base is a decimal number between 2 and 64 > representin the arithmetic base, and n is a number in that base. If > base# is omitted, then base 10 is used. The digits greater than > 9 are represented by the lowercase letters, the uppercase letters, @, > and _, in that order. If base is less than or equal to 36, lowercase > and uppercase letters may be used inter$B!>(Bchangeably to represent > numbers between 10 and 35. > > So here's a way to get around the problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ declare -i dirx=10#$(date +%V) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $dirx > 8 > > declare -i dirx=10#$(date +%V) > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
