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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:33:34 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r210511 - head/contrib/netcat
Message-ID:  <201007261833.o6QIXYkL051350@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: bcr (doc committer)
Date: Mon Jul 26 18:33:33 2010
New Revision: 210511
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210511

Log:
  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
  MFC after:		7 days

Modified:
  head/contrib/netcat/nc.1

Modified: head/contrib/netcat/nc.1
==============================================================================
--- head/contrib/netcat/nc.1	Mon Jul 26 18:23:05 2010	(r210510)
+++ head/contrib/netcat/nc.1	Mon Jul 26 18:33:33 2010	(r210511)
@@ -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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