Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:11:56 +1100 From: Tigger <tigger@lvlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: unexpected result from sh script with `date` Message-ID: <20070202111156.GA41151@lilypie.com>
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Hello, the following simply sh script is outputting unexpected results. Any idea why? --script-- #!/bin/sh started=`date` echo "Started at: $started" echo "Finished : "`date` exit --output-- Started at: Fri Feb 2 22:13:51 EST 2007 Finished : Fri Feb 2 22:13:51 EST 2007 --problem-- Between 'Feb' and '2', there is two spaces on the 'Started at' line, however the 'Finished' one only has 1 space. I know this sounds picky, but I was not expecting this at all. uname -a FreeBSD piglet 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 19 04:13:20 EST 2007 tigger@piglet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIGLET i386 -Tig
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