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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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