[TriLUG] happy 366th day of the year

[Alan Porter via TriLUG]

It works the same way that [[ "$(date +%a)" == "Sat" ]] does.
It's just a string.

Bash is weird in the way that it uses a math-like == operator to compare strings and a word-like -eq operator to compare numbers.

Alan




On 1/1/21 2:55 PM, Pete Soper wrote:
> OK, the one last night was surprising, but yours is just plain weird. Is the 9 being ignored as an invalid octal digit? What's the trick that makes your expression true?
> Pete
> 
> Sent by my phone with an editing mind of its own
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: 1/1/21 2:32 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org>, Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] happy 366th day of the year
> 
> 
> I thought this was a [[ $(date +%j) == "091" ]] joke.
> 
> Alan
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