On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 22:28 +0000, Stephan Helma wrote:
> The file .vacation.msg should call
> /bin/date --date=2013-02-07 +"%A, %-d %B"
> to format a time string. Whatever I do, I get the this error from /bin/date:
> bin/date: extra operand `%-d'
> Try `/bin/date --help' for more information.
You need to do this (broken across two lines):
> ${run {'/bin/date' '--date=2013-02-07' \
'+"%A, %-d %B"'}{$value}{$value}}
"Thursday, 7 February"
(you may want to lose the double quotes in the format string).
As this is not called through a shell, the quoting is important. For a
bit more detail, have a read of:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-string_expansions.html
and search for ${run
Graeme
