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
