Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 21:59:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: date +format does not emit a newline by default Message-ID: <199504031959.VAA00595@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504031425.QAA09760@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Apr 3, 95 04:25:55 pm
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> Not sure if this is conforming with POSIX, but if you specify a format
> string to "date", the snap950210 version will not emit a newline by
> default. This deviates from the behaviour of 1.1.x and of most Unixes I
> have used, and might break some user scripts.
Thank you. It's definately wrong. Here's the Posix part on this:
4.15.4 Operands
When the format is specified, each field descriptor shall be replaced in
the standard output by its corresponding value. All other characters
shall be copied to the output without change. The output shall be always
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
terminated with a <newline> character.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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