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Portable way to obtain the quarter #1

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arrigo opened this issue Aug 22, 2023 · 0 comments

arrigo commented Aug 22, 2023

The current version fails to run on FreeBSD and other BSD derivatives due to the line

quarter=$(date -d "$(echo "$rawdateinfo" | cut -d_ -f1)" "+%YQ%q")

as the -d flag is not supported in BSD.

A portable variant could be the following, using awk:

quarter=$(date +"%Y %m" | awk '{q=int($2/4)+1; printf("%sq%s\n", $1, q);}')

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