/bin/sh arithmetic doesn't seem to like leading 0 now

[David Wolfskill]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:20:07PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>wrote:
> 
> > $ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
> >
> 
> Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
> happens with 07 in place of 09.

As (I) expected, it's handled Just fine:

$ uname -r
9.1-PRERELEASE
$ echo $(( 07 + 0 ))
7
$ 

So yeah, this seems to be something involving treating leading 0 as
indicating octal (and seriously disliking "9" in such a context).

Peace,
david
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