[Gllug] Arithmetic error in bash on 08 and 09?

[Tethys]

"C. Cooke" writes:

># Turn on extended globbing ( off by default in bash! )
>shopt -s extglob
>
># Get the number
>num="$(date +%U)"
>
># Strip off leading 0s (uses extended globbing)
>clean="${num##+(0)}"

No need for extended globbing. You can do it without:

	clean="${num//#0/}"

But you don't actually need to remove the leading zero anyway. Just tell
the shell it's in base10:

	num=$((10#$(date +%U) + 1))
	file="$(printf XXX%02d.log $num)"

Tet
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