Re: Suggested BASH Improvement

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/18/24 1:10 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> > Thanks for the proposal. I think the [base#]n syntax is reasonable
> > here without adding a new shell option.
>
> Do recall, however, that negative numbers break the workaround suggested
> by Andreas.
>
>      $((10#${line:12:2}))

Not part of the original problem statement.

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