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From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: awk vs echo
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Date: 11 Feb 91 17:58:48 GMT
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The problem is that date(1) prints out a space separated list which
breaks the argument to awk.  If you eliminate the spaces, it works,
e.g.:

	awk '{ print "'`date | sed -e s/\ /:/g`': " $0}' 

Jim Helman
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