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To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c 
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:37:57 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Gentlefolk;

could this thread-from-hell now die?

M

> 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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