Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:37:57 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <199908302037.WAA31061@gratis.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. > > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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