'date' issue [solved by reinob]

[ksu]

Hello,

I noticed a strange behavior with one of the daily cron, "single-liners" i got running for past several months:

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EVENODD="$([ $(($(date +%d)%2)) -eq 0 ] && echo "EVEN" || echo "ODD")"
tar czf /root/etc.backup.daily$EVENODD.tar.gz /etc &> /tmp/etc.backup.daily$EVENODD.log

it created the backups yesterday, and the day before ( 7th and 6th of Mar ):

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-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1244662 Mar  6 02:55 etc.backup.dailyEVEN.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1244665 Mar  7 02:55 etc.backup.dailyODD.tar.gz

but today at 2:55am it failed with:

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 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")

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$ echo $(($(date +%d)%2))

started suddenly failing... not only on the Jessie, but on Gentoo, and Stretch.

The script has not been modified for a while... if it would fail earlier, the result tars would not get created as shown, unless I am going crazy...

Thanks,

Mike

[reinob]

Hello,

I noticed a strange behavior with one of the daily cron, "single-liners" i got running for past several months:

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EVENODD="$([ $(($(date +%d)%2)) -eq 0 ] && echo "EVEN" || echo "ODD")"
tar czf /root/etc.backup.daily$EVENODD.tar.gz /etc &> /tmp/etc.backup.daily$EVENODD.log

it created the backups yesterday, and the day before ( 7th and 6th of Mar ):

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-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1244662 Mar  6 02:55 etc.backup.dailyEVEN.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1244665 Mar  7 02:55 etc.backup.dailyODD.tar.gz

but today at 2:55am it failed with:

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 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")

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$ echo $(($(date +%d)%2))

started suddenly failing... not only on the Jessie, but on Gentoo, and Stretch.

The script has not been modified for a while... if it would fail earlier, the result tars would not get created as shown, unless I am going crazy...

Thanks,

Mike

My bet: 08 is being interpreted as octal (because it starts with zero). On Friday you'll be fine again :)

[ksu]

hehe, great...

[edit]
disregard these next lines, you still can do modulo in octal base

i also did:

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gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
-bash: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
gentoo3 ~ # date -s "7 Mar 2017 2:55:00"
Tue Mar  7 02:55:00 EST 2017
gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
1
gentoo3 ~ # date -s "6 Mar 2017 2:55:00"
Mon Mar  6 02:55:00 EST 2017
gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
0

[reinob]

hehe, great...

i also did:

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gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
-bash: 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
gentoo3 ~ # date -s "7 Mar 2017 2:55:00"
Tue Mar  7 02:55:00 EST 2017
gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
1
gentoo3 ~ # date -s "6 Mar 2017 2:55:00"
Mon Mar  6 02:55:00 EST 2017
gentoo3 ~ # echo $(($(date +%d)%2))
0

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/ari ... rent_bases

[ksu]

yup, that explains! Thank you!

[ksu]

changed %d to %e

thanks again!!!!