On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 7/23/14, 3:20 AM, maik.lied...@sungard.com wrote: >> hello, >> >> to change our scripts from ksh to bash we have problems with vars and >> leading zeros. >> how we can declare hrs and min? > > Greg offered several good suggestions to force base 10 in certain > situations. > >> or can we disable the automatic change from decimal to octal? > > No. Bash treats integer constants identically regardless of the context: a > leading 0 denotes octal. ksh93 treats constants with leading zeros > differently in different contexts (assigning to a variable with the integer > attribute set happens to be one of the cases where ksh93 treats a constant > as strictly decimal).
I don't believe there are any cases in which ksh interprets a leading zero, at least not current versions. If you want octal you must use either 8#num or typeset -ibase. Same applies to both zsh and mksh AFAICT.
