Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters

[Patrick Nagelschmidt]

At 17.12.2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Patrick Nagelschmidt wrote:
> >         The script below fails on my box with the following output:
> >
> >         1197676800
> >         date: invalid date `1970-01-01 \033[?1034h1197676800 sec'
> >
> >         So for some reason the value passed to date got a nasty prefix.
>
> I cannot recreate the problem.  However I think your issue is because
> you are forcing bc into interactive mode.

Ok, thanks guys, you are both right, the interactive mode was the 
cause for this. how could i ever doubt the purity of the bash :)


Br,
 Patrick