Issue with typeset in Linux

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
1

Hi All,

typeset -Z4 curtime command is giving different result than expected inside scripts in linux.But it gives expected results outside the scripts.Can you please help us

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curTime=`date +%H%M`
typeset -Z4 fmtCurTime=$curTime
echo $fmtCurTime
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What symptoms do you have? I have pasted your code into AIX and RedHat Linux without issue, but then I have my shell set as ksh. Doing it in bash gives me the following:-

bash: typeset: -Z: invalid option
typeset: usage: typeset [-aAfFilrtux] [-p] name[=value] ...

Is this your problem? You don't say, so it's a bit difficult to help. :rolleyes:

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

3

Hi,

We are in Red Hat Linux and ksh.

4

So, just to be clear,

5

Hi,

Please try below code in AIX and Red Hat Linux...you will see different results

typeset -i currentTime=0
currentTime=`date +%H%M`
echo $currentTime
6

The same output for me. What do you see? What shell are you using on the two servers? Can you paste the output from:-

ps -f
typeset -Z4 currentTime=`date +%H%M`
echo $currentTime

I've changed the typeset to set a 4 character field padded with leading zeros, because I was running this at 09:25 local time to me, so the output I got was just 925 . On both AIX and RHEL, I am using ksh, but if I swap to bash (the default for RHEL) then I get the following output using typeset -i :-

bash: 0928: value too great for base (error token is "0928")

The -Z flag for typeset is not valid for bash. I've not needed it yet, but it would be good to know of a way to acheive the same effect. :confused: When forcing it in, I get:-

typeset -Z4 my_var
bash: typeset: -Z: invalid option
typeset: usage: typeset [-aAfFilrtux] [-p] name[=value] ...

:rolleyes:

Can you paste what you are seeing please, because I don't have a problem with your code, other than not knowing if it is three or four digits.

Thanks again,
Robin