Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

2014-05-04 Thread Asif Iqbal
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > That makes sense. But why does it only fail on 08 and 09? Shouldn't it > also fail on 01-06? > Isn't that obvious? Unless in your world, octal 6 is different than decimal 6 :-) -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeySe

Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

2014-05-04 Thread Asif Iqbal
what I am doing with printf but I > am a bit baffled as to why it only croaks on 08 and 09. > > 1) Does anyone know what is wrong here? > leading zero is interpreted as octal. You need to prepend the number with 10# to convert it to decimal first > > 2) Is there a better way o

Re: video compression?

2014-02-18 Thread Asif Iqbal
ontact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140217132326.ga24...@tomgeorge.info > > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?