I have a situation where something that works as a literal but
doesn't work when reading from a text file. Here's the problem,
simplified...
I have a text file ztest.txt consisting of one line...
"August 14, 2021"
...and I have a script ztest consisting of...
#!/bin/bash
xtoday=$( date --date="August 14, 2021" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
read < ztest.txt
echo "${REPLY}"
xtoday=$( date --date="${REPLY}" +%F )
echo ${xtoday}
Running the script produces three lines of output...
2021-08-14
"August 14, 2021"
date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’
What am I doing wrong?
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