Skip new line

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
how can I skip the new line of echo? In SH!!!!

echo "the date is :"
date

and result I want is
the date is : Tue Oct 11 22:24:37 WEST 2005

I've already tried including the \c inside the echo, but it didn't work.

Thanks!

2

echo -n "the date is: "

3

Try this

echo "the date is :\c"
date

--Mons