Re: [PATCH v2] support for generating decreasing dates in bash 4.0 and 4.1

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] support for generating decreasing dates in bash 4.0 and 4.1

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:19:17 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> The printf builtin "%(fmt)T" specifier (which allows time values
> to use strftime-like formatting) is introduced in bash 4.2.
>
> Trying to execute this in pre-4.2 bash will fail -- and if this
> happens execute the fallback piece of perl code to do the same 

pushed.

d

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