From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 3 07:35:40 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA09869 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 07:35:40 -0700 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA09860 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 07:35:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA09760 for bugs@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:25:56 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199504031425.QAA09760@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: date +format does not emit a newline by default To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:25:55 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 612 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================