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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:24:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: How to Specify Newline?
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On 2001-11-09, Drew Tomlinson scribbled:

# 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:

Try:

LOG="`date; echo ''`"

The `echo ''` portion should return the newline.

-- 

Linh Pham
[lplist@closedsrc.org]

# Every solution breeds new problems


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