Re: printf %()T

[Roger]

Definitely see this now, under printf

sub-heading:

 %(datefmt)T

Since I looked this up a few days ago and going from vague memory,
think what I meant to say, maybe an example within the printf section
is lacking.

I was noticing with my very initial tests, quotes/parenthesis were
required for any strtime variables to print.  With the current
explanation, users would likely need to further search the Internet
for examples.

The date command is frequently pulled into all of my scripts.
Seemingly introduced in bash-4.2, eh, flew over my nest.



On 5/2/23, Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> wrote:
> Roger writes:
>
>> I did not find the printf date incantation within man bash, however these
>> Emails are highlighted here for future reference.
>
> Mine has
>
>               %(datefmt)T
>                      causes printf to output the  date-time  string
> resulting
>                      from  using  datefmt  as a format string for
> strftime(3).
>                      The corresponding argument is an integer representing
> the
>                      number  of seconds since the epoch.  Two special
> argument
>                      values may be used: -1 represents the current  time,
> and
>                      -2  represents the time the shell was invoked.  If no
> ar‐
>                      gument is specified, conversion behaves as if -1 had
> been
>                      given.   This  is an exception to the usual printf
> behav‐
>                      ior.
>
> Do you have that?
>