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Re: manpage error-Arithmetic Evaluation of numbers with explicit base
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: manpage error-Arithmetic Evaluation of numbers with explicit base |
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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:05:16 -0400 |
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On 3/22/10 9:13 AM, tbartdev@gmx-topmail.de wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 35
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> The man page seems to be wrong regarding the handling of numbers with
> different bases. It states one has to use [base#]n although it seems to be
> [base#n] that needs to be used...
The meta-notation [x] means that x is optional. This usage is fairly
common, especially in Unix man pages.
Chet
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What is $[ ] ?, Marc Herbert, 2010/03/23