Re: Potential Bug Report

[Mark Rose]

Hi there,

You simply need to use quotes, much like you did on the command line. Thus

EDATE=`date +'%s' -d $TDATE`

becomes

EDATE=`date +'%s' -d "$TDATE"`

... and so on for your other references to $TDATE.

Regards,
Mark

On Friday 22 June 2007 9:07:22 am address@hidden wrote:
>    I would like to report what I think is a bug: why the following linux
> "date" command fails to run within a shell script. But, in runs fine on
> the command line. I'm running 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 on a IBM Thinkpad. I've
> also tested on an IBM eServer running 2.6.9-55.ELsmp with the same
> results. From the shell, it fails with an "extra operand" error. It seems
> to misinterpreting the date string and/or formatting string.
>
> ============
> COMMAND LINE:
> remma> date -d "2007-06-22 00:00:00" +'%s'
> 1182484800
>
> ============
> SHELL SCRIPT:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # ep.sh
> #
> TDATE="2007-06-01 01:01:01"
> echo $TDATE
> #
> echo "Test#1"
> date +%s -d $TDATE
> #OR
> echo "Test#2"
> date -d $TDATE +'%s'
> #OR
> echo "Test#3"
> EDATE=`date -d $TDATE +'%s'`
> echo $EDATE
> #OR
> echo "Test#4"
> EDATE=`date +'%s' -d $TDATE`
> echo $EDATE
>
> ~~~~~~~
>
> RESULTS:
> >ep.sh
>
> 2007-06-01 01:01:01
> Test#1
> date: extra operand `01:01:01'
> Try `date --help' for more information.
> Test#2
> date: extra operand `+%s'
> Try `date --help' for more information.
> Test#3
> date: extra operand `+%s'
> Try `date --help' for more information.
>
> Test#4
> date: extra operand `01:01:01'
> Try `date --help' for more information
>
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