[ILUG] Bash script misbehaving

[Kieran Tully]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:50, Kieran Tully <kieran.tully at gmail.com> wrote:

> As $MONTH was already padded it was interpreted as octal.
> The solution was to use month in a string context, i.e.
>  printf %s $MONTH

which is the simplest solution if printf is involved and the padding
is already correct.

However it occurs to me that "line 37" may be doing arithmetic, in which case
forcing base 10 may be a better solution, e.g.
 echo $(( 10#${MONTH} + 1 ))

More at http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/syntax/arith_expr
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Kieran Tully, Software Developer and Tenor, http://ktully.net