[lug] Remember Y2K?

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

Folks,

I just fixed a W08 problem. This morning, a shell script I'd written
started to fail. The problem was a line adding the week-of-year to
something else.

x=$(( $(date +%W) + something_else ))


What could possibly be wrong with that?

Answer: $(date +%W) returns (starting this week) 08 .  Bash says "The
leading zero says you mean 'octal.'  Shame on you. Eight is *not* an octal
number."

That sound you heard around 3:15 this afternoon was me, smacking my
forehead.

My solution was to change it to 10#$(date +%W)

Is there a better solution?

-- 
Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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