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Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell
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Aleksandar Milivojevic |
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Re: Octal numbers and backward incompatibility with Bourne shell |
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01 Aug 2002 14:56:18 +0200 |
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Chet Ramey (chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu) wrote:
> POSIX.2 requires that octal constants be recognized as in C.
Didn't know that. Guess that bash is the only *sh that is compliant
with that. This way or the other, isn't it great when people who
write standards break things... Code that worked for decades all of
the sudden stops working...
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Aleksandar Milivojević <alex@hinet.hr>
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