On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 11:58:29 PM MST Johannes Sixt wrote: > But notice that the value of $TODAY_REGEX contains blanks. > > In this line > > check_human_date "$(($(date +%s)-18000)) +0200" $TODAY_REGEX > > the value of $TODAY_REGEX is substituted and then the value is split > into fields at the blanks because the expansion is not quoted. > > As a consequence, function check_human_date considers only the first > part of $TODAY_REGEX, i.e. 'A-Z][a-z][a-z]' (which is parameter $2), but > ignores everything else (because it does not use $3 or $4). > > -- Hannes I hadn't understood your original comment, but now i understand. Will fix.
