Thanks, Steeve. A brilliant solution I would never have thought
ofbut which makes perfect sense now that I've seen it.
I spent some time today developing a regex to pre-test the dates, but
your solution is way more elegant. - Peter
-Original Message-From: Steeve McCauley <
steeve.mccau
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 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?
>
> co
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’
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 5:23 PM Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Add two new command-line options that set the appropriate hint flags in
> the statx call. These are primarily used with network filesystems to
> indicate what level of cache coherency the application can tolerate.
> The new options are only im
