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Noëlle Boer
Noëlle Boer

Reputation: 39

Get output from a while loop

I have a file with dates where i want the dates to change to the day of the week using bash. I did this by the following while statement:

while read p; do
    date -d $p +%A
done <dates.txt

This works fine, but now i want the output of this statement in a file, say output.txt.

I tried

while read p; do
    date -d $p +%A
done <dates.txt >output.txt

But this gives the error date: extra operand '+%A'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 207

Answers (1)

No&#235;lle Boer
No&#235;lle Boer

Reputation: 39

It worked, thanks for the help.

I now have 

while IFS= read -r p; do
   date -d "$p" +%A
done <dates.txt >output.txt

Upvotes: 2

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