Value too great for base (error token is "08") bash

Question

I have seen on the forum that the problem is that I create octal instead of decimal, but I can't find out where to change my code to solve this.

This is part of my code:
dd=1234567890aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ
ddate=$(exiv2 "${i}"|grep timestamp)
SPEC=$ddate
read X X YEAR MONTH DAY HOUR MINUTE SECOND <<<${SPEC//:/ }
d1=${YEAR:2}
d2=${dd:(MONTH-1):1}
d3=${dd:(DAY-1):1}
d4=${dd:(HOUR-1):1}
d5=${dd:(MINUTE-1):1}
d6=${dd:(SECOND-1):1}
d7=0

Thank you for the help!

Can you do echo `echo "$SPEC" | cat -vte` and show its content here. — anubhava, Feb 13 '14 at 19:25
possible duplicate of [bash: value too great for base (error token is "0925")](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5455779/bash-value-too-great-for-base-error-token-is-0925) — devnull, Feb 13 '14 at 19:34

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '14 at 19:32

5

Tell bash that your variables are decimal, not octal

d2=${dd:(10#$MONTH-1):1}
d3=${dd:(10#$DAY-1):1}
d4=${dd:(10#$HOUR-1):1}
d5=${dd:(10#$MINUTE-1):1}
d6=${dd:(10#$SECOND-1):1}

answered Feb 13 '14 at 19:32

glenn jackman

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That was indeed the trick I was looking for. I was a bit confused where to put the 10#. Thank you a lot! – Helfenstein Feb 13 '14 at 20:55

Value too great for base (error token is "08") bash

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