bash script issue

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Peter <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| William Muriithi <william.muriithi at ...> writes:
| > '004378858 (152).jpg'
| 
| One tip: bash has POSIX conventions and one of those is: "any number that
| starts with 0 is octal". Yes, OCTAL. Therefore, AVOID using such filenames
| most of the time.

I don't remember an ordinary shell context where a pathname can be
confused with number.  Can you give an example?

I think that this kind of thing is true in a variety of scripting 
languages that try to figure out the programmer's intent without 
explicit typing.
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