Re: error in math args?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Scott Dylewski wrote:

> I'm running Fedora core 3 on an Athlon, and I get the following problem:
>
> I get an error when running:
> echo $(( 008 / 2 ))
>
> In my script, however, I'm passing the value as a variable.  when it
> gets to 008, I get an error.

    Numbers with a leading 0 are treated as octal, i.e. base 8; "8"
    and "9" are not legitimate octal digits.

> [scott@feynman complex]$ echo $(( 008 / 2 ))
> -bash: 008: value too great for base (error token is "008")

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