[TriLUG] BASH oddity

[Ian Kilgore]

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Paul G. Szabady wrote:
| That's what I thought, but other non-octal combinations work.
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| IE
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| [paul at at paul]$ declare -i dirx=88 ; echo $dirx
| 88
| [paul at at paul]$
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~From bash(1):

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 representing
the arithmetic base, and n is a number in that base.  If base# is omit-
ted,  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 interchangeably to represent numbers between 10 and 35.
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