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Test for a number in bash
Depends what you mean by number. 0x12, inf, 1.2, -12, ¹²³, ⑱, 1e6, 1,000,000, Ⅷ, 0x123p-5, 6,23, 0b100110 are all numbers by some definitions of number, and 08, 019, ...
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Test for a number in bash
It is not, as a simple test will show us:
#!/bin/bash
for var in 1 2 3 a b c; do
if [[ "$var" =~ '^[[:digit:]]+$' ]]; then
echo "$var is a number"
else
echo "$var ...
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