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# 15  
Old 09-27-2010
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Originally Posted by Franklin52
but our intention is also to use portable code here.
that's your intention, not mine Smilie
A lot of solutions posted here in unix.com are not portable. It all depends on what OP has and whether its stated as a requirement. If not, writing portable code here is the least of concerns (at least for me)
# 16  
Old 09-27-2010
Kurumi, the intention on this forum is to write portable code. It is not a necessity. But if your solution is not portable it is good practice to specify in what environment it would work. This is so that solutions on this forum can be of maximum use to everyone. For instance in the case of your example you could state that it is bash/ksh93 only. If it is POSIX compliant then there is no need to do that. IMO Franklin was simply stating that it was not a portable solution so that readers know this to be the case...
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# 17  
Old 09-27-2010
MySQL
Code:
# a=1234;let x=12-`echo $a| fold -w1 | sed -n '$='`;while [ $((x -= 1 )) -gt -1 ] ; do a=${a}1 ; done ; echo "New value -> $a"
New value -> 123411111111
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