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From: Ralf Goertz <r_goe...@usenet.arcornews.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:37:12 +0100
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Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> For those not using bash (and even those who are):
> 
> eval "date '+dow=%w dom=%e'"
> if [ "$dow" -eq 2 ] && [ "$dom" -ge 8 ] && [ "$dom" -le 14 ]
> then
> : whatever
> done

Hm, apart from the obvious "done" "fi" mixup this doesn't work for me as
the eval line doesn't seem to get evaluated, it only gets printed. $dow
and $dom are empty in line 2.