feat(unitproc):datetimeShort:Use 1st argument as input date

[BK-2020-03.git] / unitproc / bktemplate

diff --git a/unitproc/bktemplate b/unitproc/bktemplate
index 81cd17c7707e4df699415a06de749043efb18961..67fbf17e188b3ca806f74bfdc66a4400a06d7a8f 100755 (executable)
--- a/unitproc/bktemplate
+++ b/unitproc/bktemplate
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ vbm() {
     # License: GPLv3+
     # Ref./Attrib:
 
-    if [ "$OPTION_VERBOSE" == "true" ]; then
+    if [ "$OPTION_VERBOSE" = "true" ]; then
        FUNCTION_TIME=$(date --iso-8601=ns); # Save current time in nano seconds.
-       echoerr "[$FUNCTION_TIME] ""$@"; # Display argument text.
+       echoerr "[$FUNCTION_TIME] ""$*"; # Display argument text.
     fi
 
     # End function
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ processArguments() {
     # Perform work
     while [ ! $# -eq 0 ]; do   # While number of arguments ($#) is not (!) equal to (-eq) zero (0).
        #1>&2 echo "DEBUG:Starting processArguments while loop." # Debug stderr message. See [1].
-        #1>&2 echo "DEBUG:Provided arguments are:""$@" # Debug stderr message. See [1].
+        #1>&2 echo "DEBUG:Provided arguments are:""$*" # Debug stderr message. See [1].
        case "$1" in
            -h | --help) showUsage; exit 1;; # Display usage.
            --version) showVersion; exit 1;; # Show version
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ checkExecutables() {
     vbm "DEBUG:checkExecutables function called."
     declare -a candidateCommandsNames # Initialize array for storing positional arguments provided to this function.
     candidateCommandsNames=("$@") # Save positional arguments to variable as string. See [3].
-    vbm "DEBUG:candidateCommandsNames:""$@"
+    vbm "DEBUG:candidateCommandsNames:""$*"
     vbm "DEBUG:candidateCommandsNames[0]:""${candidateCommandsNames[0]}"
     vbm "DEBUG:candidateCommandsNames[1]:""${candidateCommandsNames[1]}"
     vbm "DEBUG:candidateCommandsNames[2]:""${candidateCommandsNames[2]}"
@@ -349,13 +349,13 @@ checkapp() {
     # Output: adds/updates key(value) to global assoc array 'appRollCall'
     local returnState    
     #echo "DEBUG:$(date +%S.%N)..Starting checkapp function."
-    #echo "DEBUG:args: $@"
+    #echo "DEBUG:args: $*"
     #echo "DEBUG:returnState:$returnState"
 
     #===Process Args===
     for arg in "$@"; do
        #echo "DEBUG:processing arg:$arg"
-       if command -v $arg 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then # Check if arg is a valid command
+       if command -v "$arg" 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then # Check if arg is a valid command
            appRollCall[$arg]="true";
            #echo "DEBUG:appRollCall[$arg]:"${appRollCall[$arg]}
            if ! [ "$returnState" = "false" ]; then returnState="true"; fi