From: _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what do the dots mean?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:51:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfj58o$fe3$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431C6C85.1050403@bcgreen.com>
Stephen Samuel wrote:
> No the second dot does NOT disappear... Watch your output closely.
> You should also get yourself a linux distribution ( www.knoppix.org
> has bootable CD or DVD images ). and try the command 'man ctime'
> (the reason why I say that is that is that 'PAUSE' is a DOS command)
>
> The %.24s says "Only print the first 24 characters of the output
> from 'ctime'. You see, the output from ctime includes a newline as
> the last (25th) character of it's output, so %.24s chops off the output
> just before the newline.
>
> I.e. the resultint output is <DATE>\n.\n
>
> The trailing dot is now on the next line.
Thanks. I saw that :)
_z33
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-04 20:55 what do the dots mean? _z33
2005-09-04 12:05 ` sumit kalra
2005-09-05 0:45 ` _z33
2005-09-04 13:10 ` sumit kalra
2005-09-05 16:04 ` Stephen Samuel
2005-09-06 16:51 ` _z33 [this message]
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