[Remind-Fans] Question about the %b option

[David Rogers]

* John Niendorf <johnniendorf at gmail.com> [2011-01-18 12:47]:

>Hi All,
>
>I have a reminder written as:
>
>REM 18 Jan 2011 +5 RUN wxremalert -d1 % Call Bank % %b
>
>This works fine.
>
>I have another reminder written as:
>
>REM 24 Jan 2011 +7  RUN wxremalert -d1 % Read Referat in Portal % Due %a %
>
>This also works fine.
>
>If however I try to use %b instead of %a I get:
>
>john at john-laptop:~$ rem
>sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>
>Does anyone see why this is happening?


Just a wild guess: could the %b be providing
...in 6 days' time
and the apostrophe looks like a quote character when sh parses it?

-- 
David Rogers