[TriLUG] BASH oddity

[Rick DeNatale]

On 2/21/06, Paul G. Szabady <Paul at thyservice.com> wrote:
> Thanks all, I think this example/workaround will suffice for what I need
> to do.

I don't know that I'd call it a workaround, since the doc on bash
makes it pretty clear that interpreting a literal that starts with 0d
(where d is a decimal digit) as octal thereby disallowing 08 and 09 is
pretty clearly working as designed.

That's something I learned about the bash language only by digging
into your question.  Thanks for providing another learning
opportunity.

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Rick DeNatale

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