Not a comma, but a close-paren. It turns out I had almost precisely that code in my bashrc (had below), so I updated the post to reflect this / your suggestion.

Not a comma, but a close-paren. It turns out I had almost precisely that code in my bashrc (had below), so I updated the post to reflect this / your suggestion. function journal() { vim $logdir/$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "$*").md } Thanks!