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# 1  
Old 11-02-2010
bash problem?
I am using SunOS 5.9 and have the following outcome when using the sh and bash shells; has anyone else had this:
(tests behave differently)
Code:
bash-2.05$ ksh
$ if echo $SHELL; uname -a;[  201010111200 -gt 201010111100 ]; then echo yessssssssssssss; else echo  nooooooooooooooo; fi
SunOS s036cln001014 5.9 Generic_118558-27  sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890
yessssssssssssss
$ exit
bash-2.05$  bash
bash-2.05$ if echo $SHELL; uname -a;[ 201010111200 -gt 201010111100 ];  then echo yessssssssssssss; else echo nooooooooooooooo; fi
SunOS  s036cln001014 5.9 Generic_118558-27 sun4u sparc  SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890
nooooooooooooooo
bash-2.05$ exit
exit

Last edited by Franklin52; 11-02-2010 at 10:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 11-02-2010
You are doing numeric comparisons... -gt
201010111200 your number
2147483648 the maximum value for numeric operations that POSIX requires

In other words, you are seeing undefined behavior. ksh happens to work; bash does not -
neither one is required to work. awk,perl,ruby, etc, handle up to 15 digits of precision.

Or change it to a string compare:
Code:
[ "201010121200" > "201010121100" ]

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# 3  
Old 11-02-2010
I believe that introducing the ">" won't solve the problem. Funnily enough, the construct works with bash under SunOS 5.10. I'm merely interested whether anyone else encountered the problem.
# 4  
Old 11-02-2010
ksh and bash-3 installed with Solaris 10 use 64 bit integers. (Note: 9223372036854775807 is 2^63-1)

ksh:

Code:
$ typeset -i i=9223372036854775807; echo $i
9223372036854775807
$ typeset -i i=9223372036854775808; echo $i

$

bash-3:

Code:
bash-3.00$ typeset -i i=9223372036854775807; echo $i
9223372036854775807
bash-3.00$ typeset -i i=9223372036854775808; echo $i
-9223372036854775808
bash-3.00$

The Solaris 9 ksh version seems also to use 64 bit arithmetic.
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# 5  
Old 11-03-2010
Jim and hergp: I take the point about the 32/64 bit issue (maxima: 2147483648/9223372036854775807); thanks for the information. It's just that my script - using bash - was failing on the 5.9 and working on the 5.10 system).
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