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Subject: Re: scary thing :-)
From: bkk5
cornell.eduDate: Fri May 12 2000 - 14:15:11 CDT
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> This appears to be a bug in head; it should not interpret the number given
> as octal, and the message given for what in this case is an invalid octal
> number is misleading.
this does not happen on my slack 7 box. i'm using head (GNU textutils) 1.22.
bash seems to be the problem for me:
bash-2.03$ head -08
bash-2.03$ ((08))
bash: ((: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
bash-2.03$
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