On Friday 06 February 2004 16:48, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
DATE=`date` ; cvs -q update -dP ; echo $DATE ; date
Fri Feb 6 16:43:59 MYT 2004 Fri Feb 6 16:46:01 MYT 2004
How come the DATE=`date` ; echo $DATE removes ONE space??
guess:
$DATE contains "Fri Feb 6 16:43:59 MYT 2004". This is expanded, then fed to echo. Echo ignores multiple spaces.
-- cheers,
- Leo Simons
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