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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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        danny@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/date date.1 date.c
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>danny       1997/09/30 22:24:09 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    bin/date             date.1 date.c 
>  Log:
>  Add the ability to supress the '\n' at the end of the date printed.

Why not just use echo -n "`date`"?

Bruce