[TriLUG] BASH oddity

[Paul G. Szabady]

That's what I thought, but other non-octal combinations work.

IE

[paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=88 ; echo $dirx
88
[paul at at paul]$


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Paul
@ Thy Service

> I believe it is interpreting the '08' as an octal string, and '8' does not
> exist in octal (only 0..7).
>
> Warren
>
> On 2/21/06, Paul G. Szabady <Paul at thyservice.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm trying to write a script and find something confusing.  If you look
>> at
>> the examples below, I was using #2.  It works if I manually set it to
>> '8',
>> but not '08'.  It works with both '6' and '06'.
>>
>> So, what's special about '08'?
>>
>> #1
>> [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=$(date +%g)
>> [paul at at paul]$ echo $dirx
>> 6
>>
>>
>> #2
>> [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=$(date +%V)
>> -bash: declare: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
>> [paul at at paul]$ echo $dirx
>> 6
>>
>>
>> #3
>> [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=08
>> -bash: declare: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
>> [paul at at paul]$ echo $dirx
>> 6
>>
>>
>> #4
>> [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=8
>> [paul at at paul]$ echo $dirx
>> 8
>>
>>
>> #5
>> [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=06
>> [paul at at paul]$ echo $dirx
>> 6
>>
>>
>>
>> [paul at at paul]$ export thisweek=(date +%g) ; echo $thisweek
>> (date +%g)
>> [paul at at paul]$ export thisweek=$(date +%g) ; echo $thisweek
>> 06
>> [paul at at paul]$ export thisweek=$(date +%V) ; echo $thisweek
>> 08
>> [paul at at paul]$
>>
>>
>>
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>> Paul
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