awk vs echo

[James Helman]

The problem is that date(1) prints out a space separated list which
breaks the argument to awk.  If you eliminate the spaces, it works,
e.g.:

	awk '{ print "'`date | sed -e s/\ /:/g`': " $0}' 

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