Linda Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> writes: > var=0a32; echo $var > -bash: 0a32: value too great for base (error token is "0a32")
Which part of "Constants with a leading 0 are interpreted as octal numbers" did you not understand? > var=a#32; echo $var > -bash: a#32: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is > "#32") Which part of "base is a decimal number between 2 and 64" did you not understand? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."