Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:06:31 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding a '-D date' option to `cat' Message-ID: <200609051606.k85G6VZx029609@thin.berklix.org> In-Reply-To: <44FD994C.70104@errno.com> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]> <200609020956.54008.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> <20060902031247.GE749@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060904192006.GA3292@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <p06230937c122c6983e00@[128.113.24.47]> <44FD994C.70104@errno.com>
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-------- Sam Leffler wrote: > Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > I intend to commit this within a few days, unless there are major > > objections to it. I am posting this HEADSUP under a new subject, > > so people can dump all kinds of paint over me before I commit it. > > I have ignored all the subsequent postings about modifying date to add > completely new functionality that is utterly unrelated to it's purpose > in life. From the looks of this posting it appears you've chosen cat as > the new victim for this functionality. This again is wrong; cat is a > filter that concatenates streams of data and does not modify their contents. > > I think committing any changes of the sort are wrong-headed and totally > contrary to the way UNIX was designed. If you want a program that acts > as a filter and adds a timestamp to each line of input it receives > create a new one. I even have a name for this program: stamp. > > Sam Agreed. More crud in cat would be bad. Too much already (line numbering). I've known Cat since V6, it's supposed to be light & small Fancy stuff better elsewhere, eg `pr' PS This probably won't make it to list, as I'm fixing my SASL auth, & my masquerade will prob. fail & not match sub'd address. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. ~
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