[arm-allstar] Fwd: ARRL news Problem

[Tony Ross]

On 08/07/2017 03:35 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:

> ​Below is a mail conversation with the ARRL regarding the fact that the
> playnews script is no longer working for ARRL news. It had been working up
> until now. They apparently have made the month's preceding 0 digit for less
> than 10 go away. This makes it incompatible with any simple built-in Linux
> date formatting. ...

The man page for date states:
...
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes.  The following 
optional flags may follow '%':
-      (hyphen) do not pad the field
...

It suggests use of the optional "-" flag as a solution, which works 
correctly:

# echo http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$(date --date="last
friday" +%Y-%-m-%d).mp3
http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-2017-8-04.mp3