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Re: suppress date() error messages?
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Steeve McCauley |
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Re: suppress date() error messages? |
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Tue, 23 Apr 2019 08:38:37 -0500 |
redirect inside the $()
$ x=$(date --date="bad" +%s > /dev/null 2>&1)
$ echo $?
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Peter Buck <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have data that I know will contain a few bad dates. I want to
> suppress the error messages. Redirection isn't working. Is there
> anything I can do?
>
> coreutils version 8.28-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
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> $ x=$(date --date="bad" +%s) > /dev/null 2>&1
> date: invalid date ‘bad’
>
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