Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:08:10 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <44F8932A.6090806@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 5:45 PM +0200 8/28/06, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >> John Baldwin wrote: >> > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> > > There's another possibility, which doesn't require a new >> > > option letter at all. You could add a new escape sequence >> > > to the format string, e.g. "%*". Whenever date(1) is >> > > called with a format string containing that sequence, it >> > > goes into filter mode and replaces the sequence with the >> > > current line. > > > Note that the main objection to this option (at least from my > point of view) is that date should not be going into filter > mode. Not ever. Date is a command to set or display dates. > It is not a command to filter files. 'cat' would be a more > appropriate place to add this option. well that's your opinion and it's as arbitrary as mine is.. I think Date's job is to output dates (and set them). To me it makes sense to include the categories of output called "Appending" and "Prepending".
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