From 7d7c85818aed6fa15852a4b8dc914f06521ac9bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:27:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] change to more appropriate printf

---
 logq          | 9 ++-------
 logq-function | 9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/logq b/logq
index b88e35e..2ac0026 100755
--- a/logq
+++ b/logq
@@ -30,9 +30,7 @@ $help"
     local file="$*"
     file="$(mktemp -d)/${file//[^[:alnum:]]/}"
 
-    echo "log of $prettycommand" >"$file"
-    date >>"$file"
-    echo >>"$file"
+    printf "%s\n%s\n\n" "log of $prettycommand" "$(date)" >"$file" 
     
     # we will propagate any errors
     local e=$-
@@ -41,10 +39,7 @@ $help"
     local ret=$?
     [[ $e == *e* ]] && set -e
 
-    echo >>"$file"
-    echo "----------------" >>"$file"
-    date >>"$file"
-    echo "end of log" >>"$file"
+    printf "\n%s\n%s\n%s" "----------------" "$(date)" "end of log" >>"$file"
     
     echo -n "\$?=$ret "
     echo -n "$prettycommand"
diff --git a/logq-function b/logq-function
index c2b99f2..8b93064 100644
--- a/logq-function
+++ b/logq-function
@@ -30,9 +30,7 @@ $help"
     local file="$*"
     file="$(mktemp -d)/${file//[^[:alnum:]]/}"
 
-    echo "log of $prettycommand" >"$file"
-    date >>"$file"
-    echo >>"$file"
+    printf "%s\n%s\n\n" "log of $prettycommand" "$(date)" >"$file" 
     
     # we will propagate any errors
     local e=$-
@@ -41,10 +39,7 @@ $help"
     local ret=$?
     [[ $e == *e* ]] && set -e
 
-    echo >>"$file"
-    echo "----------------" >>"$file"
-    date >>"$file"
-    echo "end of log" >>"$file"
+    printf "\n%s\n%s\n%s" "----------------" "$(date)" "end of log" >>"$file"
     
     echo -n "\$?=$ret "
     echo -n "$prettycommand"
-- 
2.30.2