* Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acam...@verlet.org> [110913 01:46]: > Some of our shell scripts that work with dates and do something like: > > month=`date +%m` > something && month=$((month-1)) > > Suddenly started crashing on august... there seems to be a bug identifying > not-numbers (numbers with leading zeroes) before '08' (eigth), how to > reproduce:
Quoting ksh(1): Additionally, integers may be prefixed with `0X' or `0x' (specifying base 16) or `0' (base 8) in all forms of arithmetic expressions, except as numeric arguments to the test command. > ksh: 08: bad number `08' 08 doesn't exist in base 8 -- Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru
