From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 23:57:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526F016A4E1 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:57:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au (vscan01.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6710F43D45 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:57:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618A8761256 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 07:57:00 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan01.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12752-03 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 07:57:00 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail.ldjcs.com.au (dsl-58-6-71-89.vic.westnet.com.au [58.6.71.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vscan01.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011757611FC for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 07:56:59 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail.ldjcs.com.au (mail [203.17.30.35]) by mail.ldjcs.com.au (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k81NusVx038773 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:56:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au) From: Lucas James Organization: LDJ Computer Services To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:56:53 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: X-Face: e#5HTm!2AOnnlvY27|AK6.`J(ChPFkY3HW!e4V4wR['1cgNGkM]jcez{.k&'BU<=?utf-8?q?9PXMyZV=0A=09I=5DY6?=(=?utf-8?q?=3B=7Bf4=3BJ=24YOdl4=2E72fZ7j=5D=5FFLF=5EmMP=25V4=5Du=2E=3FX?= =?utf-8?q?U=5CTEgmbQ=23Xz=3BNpIa=3DGa=25z=7BvzRD=3A=5Da=0A=09ag5GR3cU3Amx?=>{B~V]n#Ost[Y2G+%5, KIt%?Bl6+nV55<6D> =?utf-8?q?=3AUJde!=23a=25Qq=7DAjbLUF13P/=0A=099e+eKK?=)bHSAwJub}Kw80RW&i$lZ[e{%uSGh{3%?eq#YghK|y8r.N, ~6@'_#, =?utf-8?q?MC-w=7DJB-5W=0A=09=3A/w?=,dDT'sHeU{nws)>E; 3Tk@Tm38Ju~)VhS; FSDz*VbetRLV{ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609020956.54008.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on mail.ldjcs.com.au Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:57:03 -0000 On Saturday 02 September 2006 03:53, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > 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. or add an option to cat to prepend each line with an arbitrary string ala: cat -p `date` file lucas -- People say I live in my own little fantasy world... well, at least they *know* me there! -- D. L. Roth