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iridakos / stup

Daily notes in the terminal :penguin:
https://github.com/iridakos/stup
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misc: detect and use gdate when available #30

Closed haganbmj closed 4 years ago

haganbmj commented 4 years ago

The GNU date function is different than the one on unix, so OSX users get all sorts of errors trying to do fancy date calculations with words like today.

~/git $ stup add -n "test"
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
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This likely still requires OSX users to install coreutils, I'm not clear if that's a default installation or not. It's readily available on brew though if needed https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/coreutils

iridakos commented 4 years ago

@haganbmj Excellent! :rocket: :rocket: :rocket:

@all-contributors please add @haganbmj for code.

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@iridakos

I've put up a pull request to add @haganbmj! :tada: