On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:00:36AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/9/18 9:24 PM, Isaac Marcos wrote: > > > Bash Version: 4.4 > > Patch Level: 12 > > Release Status: release > > > > Description: > > A value inside an arithmetic expansion is processed as octal despite using > > a 10# preffix. > > An integer constant cannot contain a `+'. > > > > > Repeat-By: > > $ echo $((10#+0034)) > > 28 > > If anything, this is bash being too liberal in accepting constants that > begin with `base#'. There would be a good case for rejecting the `10#' > because it's missing the value.
It also happens with negative values. I wish the original poster had shown that case as well. wooledg:~$ n=-019; echo "$((10#$n))" bash-5.0: 10#-019: value too great for base (error token is "019")
