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Escaping the space with \\ should also do it.

Kaz
– Kaz

2024-07-19 17:33:09 +00:00
Commented Jul 19, 2024 at 17:33
That's going to result in nasal demons depending on the contents of the input file. environment variable settings, the directory you call it from, etc. since it's passing the contents of $1 to the shell unquoted. If you were to call date directly from the shell with literal strings as arguments you should enclose them in single quotes, i.e. date -d 'today' '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M' so you should do the same when calling the shell from awk to execute a command with literal strings, i.e. it should be system("date -d \047" $1 "\047 \047+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M\047")

Ed Morton
– Ed Morton

2024-07-19 23:28:14 +00:00
Commented Jul 19, 2024 at 23:28

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