On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: > Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda dixit: > >>On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Pascal Stumpf <pascal.stu...@cubes.de> wrote: > >>>> month=10#$(date +%m) >>> >>> Is that a mkshism? > > No, that's proper Korn shell. > >>> The easiest solution here is: >>> >>> typeset -Z2 month > > That can break as soon as month is made an integer someplace down. > Padding is meant for output, not input. > >>Yep, I did that in some scripts, just >>don't know how portable it is... > > tg@stinky:~ $ /bin/ksh -c 'i=10#08; print $((i)) $(uname -a)' > 8 SunOS stinky 5.8 Generic_117350-61 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 Solaris > > So, portable across all Korn shells. > > bye, > //mirabilos > -- > FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much > *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of > ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't > wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh >
I meant portable among other shells, or bourne shell...
