[ale] Bash confusion

[Charles Shapiro]

Newline character?

On a really old system I get:

foo# date +%d | od -c
0000000   2   0  \n
0000003


-- CHS

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok, simple one...  I have a script that has this:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> date=`date +%d`
> if [ $date = "01" ]; then
>   # Run Monthly Backup
> else
>   # Run Incremental Backup
> fi
>
> - From the man page of 'date':
>         %d     day of month (e.g, 01)
>
> And when I set it up last year, it did run a full on 11/01/2010.  But
> now it's not.  Going to convert it to a numerical '-eq' comparison but
> it's still got me wondering why it's picking the wrong date.  Any ideas?
>
> Robert
>
> - --
>
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