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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:48:19 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
To:        rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        danny@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-bin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/date date.1 date.c
Message-ID:  <199710012248.TAA02266@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <199710012040.NAA24627@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Oct 1, 97 01:40:37 pm"

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#define quoting(Rodney W. Grimes)
// >   Modified files:
// >     bin/date             date.1 date.c 
// >   Log:
// >   Add the ability to supress the '\n' at the end of the date printed.
// 
// Don't people even know about how to use the tool building ability
// of unix anymore, this proliferation of duplicate functionality
// via options is getting rather over done.
// 
// echo -n `date`

It may be similar, but it is NOT equal...

Try this:  :)

echo -n "`date`"

					Jonny

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