redirect inside the $() $ x=$(date --date="bad" +%s > /dev/null 2>&1) $ echo $? 1
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Peter Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > I have data that I know will contain a few bad dates. I want to > suppress the error messages. Redirection isn't working. Is there > anything I can do? > > coreutils version 8.28-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS > > $ x=$(date --date="bad" +%s) > /dev/null 2>&1 > date: invalid date ‘bad’ > -- :wq
