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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Appending timestamp to a file. Why do I need this space ? Post 302771344 by Subbeh on Wednesday 20th of February 2013 11:11:01 AM
Old 02-20-2013
date is a command like any other command, and therefore needs a space behind it if you provide arguments (in this case '+%d-%b-%Y')
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