[ale] Bash confusion

[Jim Kinney]

I get the same results on a new system (CEntOS 5.6).

The comparison _should_ not "see" the \n

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> > 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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> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iEYEARECAAYFAk4m9x8ACgkQ8+1vMONE2jvuSgCgmi/771au8rOxhSLm0iwfuJ4x
> > aV8AnjfTb/21A/w4PBUfCnZ1G7CcPKxl
> > =UYaq
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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