From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 06:00:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (batch_convert): Remove any trailing newline from offending
X-Git-Tag: textutils-1_12_1~282
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=829c2269542583fb67ccbdf1224bcdceebd90256;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(batch_convert): Remove any trailing newline from offending
line before including it in the `invalid date' error from `date -f'.
Reported by Franc,ois Pinard.
---

diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c
index f9dccb98b0..b1c87448c4 100644
--- a/src/date.c
+++ b/src/date.c
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ batch_convert (input_filename, format)
       when = get_date (line, NULL);
       if (when == -1)
 	{
+	  if (line[line_length - 1] == '\n')
+	    line[line_length - 1] = '\0';
 	  error (0, 0, "invalid date `%s'", line);
 	  status = 1;
 	}