[Remind-Fans] Fwd: rem run date not working

[Dave Parker]

Thank you, that worked!

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 7:52 AM Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca> wrote:

> Hi, Dave,
>
> On 9/10/19 9:24 PM, Dave Parker wrote:
> > Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong address to send to, but I tried
> > "remind-fans at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> > <mailto:remind-fans at lists.roaringpenguin.com>" and the email bounced
> back to me
>
> The list is now here: https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
> and you do appear to be subscribed, so I'm replying to the list.
>
> > but with this in a rem file:
> > REM AT 19:09 run date "+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M" >> /tmp/plexrunning
> > REM AT 19:09 run date >> /tmp/plexrunning
>
>
> > Tue Sep 10 19:09:00 MDT 2019 <-- this is correct (although happens
> before the
> > previous rem line)
> > 2019/September/10 Today:September <-- this is weirdly wrong (and should
> appear
> > before the other one)
>
> Two things are happening here:
>
> 1) If you have two timed reminders that trigger at the same time, Remind
> makes no guarantee about which order they'll be fired in.
>
> 2) Remind has its *own* %-substitution filter that happens before the
> command line is passed to the shell.  You need to double up on the percent
> signs, like this:
>
> REM AT 19:09 run date "+%%Y/%%m/%%d %%H:%%M" >> /tmp/plexrunning
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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