[PLUG] bash question

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

On Monday 19 August 2002 12:41, you wrote:
> As soon as I hit <send> I knew I'd regret it:
>
> Marvin J. Kosmal wrote:
>  :: On Monday 19 August 2002 11:39, you wrote:
>  :: >  :: On Monday 19 August 2002 10:46, you wrote:
>  :: >  :: > I'm writing a script where I want to figure out what
>  :: >  :: > month it will be X weeks from today. If it were one
>  :: >  :: > week from today, I could use date like this:
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > date --date='+ 1 week' +%m
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > This stores it to a variable (X):
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > X=$(date --date='+ 1 week' +%m)
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > But what if the 1 in the above statement is itself a
>  :: >  :: > variable?
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > Y=1
>  :: >  :: > X=$(date --date='+ $Y week' +%m)
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > I get this error:
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > date: invalid date `+ $Y week'
>  :: >  :: >
>  :: >  :: > How do I proceed here?
>  :: >  ::
>  :: >  ::  Try  $(Y) week
>  :: >  ::
>  :: >  :: Marvin
>  :: >
>  :: > Marvin, did you? (Try it, I mean)?
>  :: >
>  :: > If it works I'd be mighty surpised since $(Y) will be just as
>  :: > enclosed in quotes as $Y was.  Which means it won't expand.
>  :: >
>  :: >
>  :: > <Rant on> I'd sure like to see people take the extra 5
>  :: > seconds to actually test their proposed solutions instead if
>  :: > misleading people down dead-ends.  Especially when the
>  :: > proposed solution is trivially easy to test.  It is extremely
>  :: > frustrating to get 17 solutions (as I did on another list
>  :: > with my recent xinerama problems) 16 of which were utterly
>  :: > useless, misleading, "solutions" from people who didn't even
>  :: > bother to read the problem statement fully.  (Thanks to the
>  :: > one or two who took the time to write a thoughtful answer.)
>  :: > ...
>
> <snip>
>
> <Rant off>
>
>  :: > Bad morning.
>  :: >
>  :: > Dean
>  ::
>  :: I agree!!  ;-))
>  ::
>  :: Marvin
>
> What a nice response to a rather nasty reply!  So nice, in fact,
> that my conscience prompts me to apologise for my rather testy
> e-mail message (though the drift of my comments still holds, in
> general).
>
> A gentle answer turns away wrath
>                          --- Proverbs 15:1
>
> Still a bad morning,
> Dean

It's a long life.

Worry about the important thing.

I have a friend who is dying.......  ;-(
And he dosen't even know BASH!!!

Thanks for listening...

Marvin