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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:55:00 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r210771 - stable/8/contrib/netcat
Message-ID:  <201008021555.o72Ft0mU067507@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: bcr (doc committer)
Date: Mon Aug  2 15:54:59 2010
New Revision: 210771
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210771

Log:
  MFC r210511:
  
  Use "printf" instead of "echo -n" in an example because it
  should be more compatible for most shells that are out there.
  
  I contacted Philip Guenther at OpenBSD about this PR and he
  corrected the issue in their tree pretty fast.
  
  PR:                 docs/142243
  Submitted by:       Yasir (yasir27 at mail dot ru)
  Obtained from:      OpenBSD
  Discussed with:     delphij

Modified:
  stable/8/contrib/netcat/nc.1
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/contrib/netcat/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/contrib/netcat/nc.1
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/contrib/netcat/nc.1	Mon Aug  2 15:33:16 2010	(r210770)
+++ stable/8/contrib/netcat/nc.1	Mon Aug  2 15:54:59 2010	(r210771)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd April 15, 2010
+.Dd July 3, 2010
 .Dt NC 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ when it might be necessary to verify wha
 in response to commands issued by the client.
 For example, to retrieve the home page of a web site:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ echo -n "GET / HTTP/1.0\er\en\er\en" | nc host.example.com 80
+$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\er\en\er\en" | nc host.example.com 80
 .Ed
 .Pp
 Note that this also displays the headers sent by the web server.



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