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Re: Printing a date without a newline
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Printing a date without a newline |
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Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:33:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jonathan Ryshpan <address@hidden> writes:
> Must the output of the date command always end in a newline? The
> documentation indicates that it must. If this is so, let me request an
> option or a +FORMAT character to prevent this.
$ date | tr -d '\n'
$ printf %s "$(date)"
Andreas.
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