On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-03-19 18:19 +0100, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I've written a function to print elapsed time similar to /usr/bin/time > > but can be called at the beginning and end of a script from within > > the script. Occasionally I get an error: '8-08: value too great for base' > > It's caused by the difference in these 2 command strings but I can't for > > the life of me see what's going on. > > Apparently bash is treating the number as octal because it starts with a > leading 0. > > Sven
In one case but not the other? What makes them treated differently? Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100319190719.ga32...@playground.mcclains.net
