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Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:44:50 -0400

> I'v found something that I think should be considered as bug.

It's not.  Look at the Bash FAQ, question E8.

> Somebody added support for octal numbers into bash, and thus made it
> backward incompatible with Bourne and Korn shells.

POSIX.2 requires that octal constants be recognized as in C.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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