Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problem with octal numbers and "date"

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

sfeam <eamerritt <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ...

> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave <at> horsfall.org>
wrote:
> > 
> > > Version 5.0 patchlevel 1    last modified 2015-06-07
> > >
> > > I've just spotted a weird problem in one of my scripts.  I'm manipulating
> > > the date, and I have the line "month = `date +%m`" to extract the month as
> > > a number.
> 
> If it's in back-tics, it's being interpreted by the shell,
> not by gnuplot.  So that particular example says nothing about
> how gnuplot processes month numbers.

depending on the version of "date" you may
switch padding off:

#> date +%m
08
#> date +%-m
8