On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:52:14PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> You should use expr in sh scripts to do arithmatic:
> $>echo `expr 08 + 1`
> 9
> $>echo `expr 09 + 1`
> 10
> $>echo `expr 010 + 1`
> 11

Not it you want scripts to run quickly.....

Some alternatives:
$ x=08; echo ${x#0}            # will strip a single leading zero.
$ x=08; echo $((${x#0}+2))     # outputs 10
$ x=0019; echo $((1$x-10000))  # outputs 19

	David

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