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Re: Getting "date" command output w/o linefeed
From: |
Francis Montagnac |
Subject: |
Re: Getting "date" command output w/o linefeed |
Date: |
29 Jul 2002 07:12:41 GMT |
In article <je7kji2w7b.fsf@sykes.suse.de>,
schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab) writes:
>rloef@interfold.com (Reed Loefgren) writes:
>
>|> Is there a switch that will output the date without a linefeed?
>
>$ date | tr -d '\n'
Or using the fact that (from the bash manual):
Bash performs the expansion by executing command and
replacing the command substitution with the standard out-
put of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
d=$(date)
echo -n "$d"
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