nice: Badly formed number

[Godwin Stewart]

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:02:28 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen at math.missouri.edu> wrote:

> > $ uname -v
> > FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 27 10:36:40 CET 2005 {snip}
> > $ nice -n 5 date
> > Sun 27 Feb 2005 23:59:37 CET
> 
> Yes, but you weren't using the csh shell.

True. I was using bash (that's what 5 years of using Linux does to you...)

If the bug appears with one shell but not with another, then surely the bug
is in the shell, no?

$ echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/bash
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.00.0(1)-release
$ nice -n 5 date
Mon 28 Feb 2005 00:06:32 CET
$ csh
%nice -n 5 date
nice: Badly formed number.

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G. Stewart - gstewart at bonivet.net

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