Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] question about redirection

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 23:26, Bram Mertens wrote:
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> Thanks that did it indeed, I also changed:
> echo "" >> $LOGFILE
> echo "--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE
> to:
> echo "\n--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE

Hmm that didn't work as expected either, after looking at `info echo` I
realised it had to be:
echo -e "\n--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE

Regards
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