> That said, I have no objection to Chet adding such a feature to Bash,
> if he can think of a sane way to do it. If you have a patch that
> implements it, it's possible he'll be willing to review it.
I don't really see the point, that'd be just bloating the code base. That task
is easy to accompl
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:46:28AM -0400, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
> In as much as bc only tells you which position in the string
> "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" it corresponds too.
>
> Useless and incomplete without a script to complete it! Thus, a bug
> worthy of being re
Greg,
I was requesting a feature in bash, due to the bugulance of bc.
You are correct in theory, however, the construction you propose (due
in no part to the fault of bash) yields an obfuscated and incomplete
answer.
In as much as bc only tells you which position in the string
"012345678
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:45:42PM -0400, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
> It is rather simplistic to perform a conversion of a number from any
> base to base 10 in bash using such construction as: echo $((36#AB1CDE1))
>
> However, the greatness of the foregoing notwithstanding, it would be
