Hello Alexandre,
perhaps I'm missing the context in which is mdate-sh executed, but
couldn't a file name with a space appear there?
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:27:35PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> # On a POSIX system, we should have
> #
> # $# = 5
> # $1 = file size
> # $2 = month
> # $3 = day
> # $4 = year or time
> # $5 = filename
> #
> # On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
> #
> # $# = 4
> # $1 = day
> # $2 = month
> # $3 = year or time
> # $4 = filename
...
> case $# in
> 4) day=$1;;
> *) day=$3; shift;;
> esac
Wouldn't the following be safer:
case $3 in
???*) day=$1;;
*) day=$3; shift;;
esac
Have a nice day,
Stepan Kasal
