On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 01:38:21PM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote
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> The date in the text file shoudn't have the quotes around it.
Thank you very much. That works. The actual data file I'm working
with has quotes around the dates, so I have to insert an extra step to
strip out the quotes with sed. Using the same ztest.txt file...
#!/bin/bash
xtoday=$( date --date="August 14, 2021" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
read < ztest.txt
ytoday=$( echo ${REPLY} | sed "s/\"//g" )
xtoday=$( date --date="${ytoday}" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
...produces...
2021-08-14
2021-08-14
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