Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem
On Sunday, August 6, 2023 12:28:26 P.M. AEST Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have a situation where something that works as a literal but
> doesn't work when reading from a text file. Here's the problem,
> simplified...
>
> I have a text file ztest.txt consisting of one line...
>
> "August 14, 2021"
>
> ...and I have a script ztest consisting of...
>
> #!/bin/bash
> xtoday=$( date --date="August 14, 2021" +%F )
> echo ${xtoday}
> read < ztest.txt
> echo "${REPLY}"
> xtoday=$( date --date="${REPLY}" +%F )
> echo ${xtoday}
>
> Running the script produces three lines of output...
>
> 2021-08-14
> "August 14, 2021"
> date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’
>
> What am I doing wrong?
The date in the text file shoudn't have the quotes around it.
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[gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem
I have a situation where something that works as a literal but
doesn't work when reading from a text file. Here's the problem,
simplified...
I have a text file ztest.txt consisting of one line...
"August 14, 2021"
...and I have a script ztest consisting of...
#!/bin/bash
xtoday=$( date --date="August 14, 2021" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
read < ztest.txt
echo "${REPLY}"
xtoday=$( date --date="${REPLY}" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
Running the script produces three lines of output...
2021-08-14
"August 14, 2021"
date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’
What am I doing wrong?
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