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Re: [CRM114spam]: bug in printf bash command


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: [CRM114spam]: bug in printf bash command
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:25:52 +0100

On 7/9/07, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
Not-a-bug

Numbers starting with a '0' are interpreted as Octal like in C; e.g.

printf "%02i" 011

gets you 09.


Obviously, "Invalid octal number" would have been a more helpful error message.

James.




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