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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:19:09 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/date date.1 date.c
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >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`"?

Well, I'll confess I didn't think of doing that.  date | sed {something} 
would probably work, too, but it just seemed nicer to ask date to not 
print the '\n' in the first place.

Danny