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authorBenedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>2010-07-26 18:33:33 +0000
committerBenedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>2010-07-26 18:33:33 +0000
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Use "printf" instead of "echo -n" in an example because it
should be more compatible for most shells that are out there. I contacted Philip Guenther at OpenBSD about this PR and he corrected the issue in their tree pretty fast. PR: docs/142243 Submitted by: Yasir (yasir27 at mail dot ru) Obtained from: OpenBSD Discussed with: delphij MFC after: 7 days
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=210511
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/netcat')
-rw-r--r--contrib/netcat/nc.14
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/netcat/nc.1 b/contrib/netcat/nc.1
index ac6aa475fbd79..41f5f092cdee7 100644
--- a/contrib/netcat/nc.1
+++ b/contrib/netcat/nc.1
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 15, 2010
+.Dd July 3, 2010
.Dt NC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ when it might be necessary to verify what data a server is sending
in response to commands issued by the client.
For example, to retrieve the home page of a web site:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ echo -n "GET / HTTP/1.0\er\en\er\en" | nc host.example.com 80
+$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\er\en\er\en" | nc host.example.com 80
.Ed
.Pp
Note that this also displays the headers sent by the web server.