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Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters


From: Patrick Nagelschmidt
Subject: Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:19:42 +0100

At 17.12.2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Nagelschmidt wrote:
>         The script below fails on my box with the following output:
>
>         1197676800
>         date: invalid date `1970-01-01 \033[?1034h1197676800 sec'
>
>         So for some reason the value passed to date got a nasty prefix.

I cannot recreate the problem.  However I think your issue is because
you are forcing bc into interactive mode.

Ok, thanks guys, you are both right, the interactive mode was the cause for this. how could i ever doubt the purity of the bash :)


Br,
Patrick




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