The description of -e in "help set" should be extended

2016-01-24 Thread Rob Browning
Instead of -e Exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status. perhaps something more like this: -e Exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status, unless the command is in a special position (see info or man pages). or something related. Otherwise, the help d

Re: Future date

2016-01-24 Thread Val Krem
Thank you very much! So easy, I am just learning about bash scripting. date -d 'next month' +%b%Y What would happen in December 2016. Will it give me Jan2017? Val! On Sunday, January 24, 2016 5:31 PM, Dave Rutherford wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Val Krem wrote: > I am trying

Re: Future date

2016-01-24 Thread Dave Rutherford
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Val Krem wrote: > I am trying to get a variable that combines the next month(Feb) and current year (2016) from the current date [...] > temp_date=$(date | awk -F ' ' '{print $2,$6}' | tr -d ' ') Wow, that's overkill. You don't need the -F ' ' options to awk, sin