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Exercises 1. How many arguments are there on this command line? sa $# $(date "+%Y %m %d") John\ Doe 2. What potential problem exists with the following snippet? year=$(date +%Y) month=$(date +%m) day=$(date +%d) hour=$(date +%H) minute=$(date +%M) second=$(date +%S)

          Exercises
1. How many arguments are there on this command line?
sa $# $(date "+%Y %m %d") John\ Doe
2. What potential problem exists with the following snippet?
year=$(date +%Y)
month=$(date +%m)
day=$(date +%d)
hour=$(date +%H)
minute=$(date +%M)
second=$(date +%S)

$Exercises 1. How many arguments are there on this command line? sa #(date "+%Y %m %d") John\ Doe 2. What potential problem exists with the following snippet? year=(date +%Y) month=(date +%m) day=(date +%d) hour=(date +%H) minute=(date +%M) second=(date +%S)$

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How many arguments are there on this command line? The command line is: sa $# $(date "+%Y %m %d") John Doe There are 6 arguments on this command line: sa, $# (which represents the number of arguments passed to the script), $(date "+%Y %m %d"), John, and Doe. Show more…

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This is from Pro Bash Programming 2nd Edition. Exercises 1. How many arguments are there on this command line? sa $# $(date "+%Y %m %d") John Doe What potential problem exists with the following snippet? year=$(date+%Y) month=$(date +%m ) day=$(date+%d) hour=$(date +%H ) minute=$(date+%M) second=$( date +%S