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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
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Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:19:55AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
>> $ echo -n `date`
> 
> Which is, of course, not quite the same as omitting the newline.
> 
> The output of date(1) can contain multiple sequential spaces.  After
> being split into arguments, and recombined by echo(1), they'll be
> reduced to one space.

Well, if that bothers you, just do:

$ echo -n "`date`"

which seems to have the desired effect.

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