Value too great for base Error Token is "09"

[stewartrose]

Good Morning Team,
I have a bash problem which is driving me nuts, it give the above error when run, I have cut out the section it is in a while function, I hope someone can help..

while getopts ":op:efDb:" ARG
do
case $ARG in
D)
DEBUG=-D
;;
b)
BACKDIR=$OPTARG
;;
f)
FULL=-f
;;
e)
DATE=$(( $(date +%d) % 2))
if [[ $DATE -ne 0 ]] ; then
exit 0
fi
;;
o)
DATE=$(( $(date +%d) % 2))
if [[ $DATE -ne 1 ]] ; then
exit 0
fi
;;
p)
PORT=$OPTARG
;;
*)
usage
exit 1
;;
esac
done

All the best and thanks from Alan

[drl]

Hi.

Welcome to the forum.

A convention in many situations is that numeric strings with a leading "0" are interpreted as octal. I suggest using "e":

%d day of month (01..31)

%e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)

-- excerpt from man date

Doing a Google for Value too great for base Error Token is "09" produces almost 50K hits ... cheers, drl

[stewartrose]

Hi, and thank you for the welcome.

That solved the problem perfectly

Thank you for your help..

All the best from Alan