Depends on the shell. The following parses as a number in Murex: %{n:1} https://murex.rocks/parser/create-object.html https://murex.rocks/parser/create-ob

Depends on the shell. The following parses as a number in Murex: %{n:1} https://murex.rocks/parser/create-object.html https://murex.rocks/parser/create-object.html I’m sure you can do similar things in other modern shells too. So the real problem is that people are stuck on the constraints of 1970s command lines.