On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, at 16:34, zed991 wrote:
> On linux, I can use date +%s --date "31 Dec 1969"
> The result is -9
> A negative number
>
> But when I try it on Windows (using GNUWin32) it gives me an error -
> "invalid date"
>
> I downloaded date for windows from this link -
>
Thanks for your reply, Paul!
I see what you're talking about; thanks for the link. The POSIX spec seems
broken in that regard. I guess I'm going to be adding -f to my scripts! (I
was surprised to see my script hang today for this very reason).
Maybe something could be added to the FAQ or
On 1/6/21 10:56 AM, John Wiersba via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
$ touch asdf && chmod a-w asdf && rm asdf 2>&1 | catrm: remove write-protected
regular empty file 'asdf'? # should*not* prompt
If the prompt cannot be seen, then it can't be properly answered, so there is
no point
$ /bin/rm --version
rm (GNU coreutils) 8.30
$ uname -a
Linux xxx 5.4.0-59-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 12:01:51 UTC 2020 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Linuxmint
Description: Linux Mint 20
Release: 20
Codename:
On linux, I can use date +%s --date "31 Dec 1969"
The result is -9
A negative number
But when I try it on Windows (using GNUWin32) it gives me an error -
"invalid date"
I downloaded date for windows from this link -
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
Is there any fix
