[ On Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 21:37:48 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/ksh arithmetic expressions....
>
> > On the other hand /bin/sh (at least on 1.6.2_STABLE) seems to have some
> > kind of parsing problem with recognizing operators when there are no
> > non-digit tokens surrounding them:
> > 
> > 	$ /bin/sh -c 'echo $((06170718+10000))'
> > 	arithmetic expression: syntax error: "06170718+10000"
> 
> Seems fine, '8' isn't an octal digit.

Damn!  That explains why it appeared to worked fine when I did a quick
and naive test -- the first number is actually generated by "date" in my
script using thsi construct.  Thanks for the clue!

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