Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:30:30 -0300 From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <20060816223030.4efbe35b.rnsanchez@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44E3BFD8.6040901@elischer.org> References: <44DD4510.5070002@elischer.org> <20060816131824.67a8053b.algardo@sura.ru> <44E38F2C.8000207@elischer.org> <20060816213709.b53ded66.rnsanchez@gmail.com> <44E3BFD8.6040901@elischer.org>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:01:12 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
wrote:
> BTW I chose 's' without any research.. Date only has the short getopt so
> '--' doesn't work, but
> there are lots of unsed letters.. a quick survey suggests maybe -p
> (pipe?) (suggestions welcome) my favourites of s and f are already used
> on one system or another.
I'd stick to either -S, -F, -T (for timestamp) or -p. After a quick
research in some twenties man pages, it's easy to find programs that have
few options and some of them are uppercase.
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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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