[TUHS] Arithmetic expansion in Unix shells

Michael Siegel msi at malbolge.net
Wed Jun 23 02:24:12 AEST 2021


Am Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:48:18 -0400
schrieb Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu>:

> On 6/21/21 10:43 AM, Michael Siegel wrote:
> > So, in other words, POSIX shell (meaning the shell described in the
> > standard as it has been released) had double-parentheses arithmetic
> > evaluation from the start?  
> 
>  From the first published version of the standard, yes.

Thanks. This will spare me from putting yet another footnote into my
little review of rc(1).


--
Michael


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