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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: How to Specify Newline?
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:27:37 -0800
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In trying to add the date and time to my Procmail logs, I set
LOG="`date`\n".  What I want is to add the date and then a newline but
it shows up in the logs as:

Fri Nov  9 05:24:57 PST 2001\n

How do I get a newline?

Thanks,

Drew


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