Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:19:09 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-bin@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/date date.1 date.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971001211555.262r-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199710010915.TAA02502@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >danny 1997/09/30 22:24:09 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > bin/date date.1 date.c
> > Log:
> > Add the ability to supress the '\n' at the end of the date printed.
>
> Why not just use echo -n "`date`"?
Well, I'll confess I didn't think of doing that. date | sed {something}
would probably work, too, but it just seemed nicer to ask date to not
print the '\n' in the first place.
Danny
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