Value too great for base (error token is “09”)

Question

When running this part of my bash script am getting an error

Script

value=0
for (( t=0; t <= 4; t++ ))
do
d1=${filedates[$t]}
d2=${filedates[$t+1]         


        

Answer 1

You don't need the $ and the {} in an arithmetic expansion expression. It should look like this:

compare=$((SEC/(60*60*24)))