Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:04:49 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <p06230929c11e4fa3595c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <44F8932A.6090806@elischer.org> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]> <44F8932A.6090806@elischer.org>
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At 1:08 PM -0700 9/1/06, Julian Elischer wrote: > >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. > > >well that's your opinion and it's as arbitrary as mine is.. Yes. I am only expressing my opinion, as I am entitled to do. What happens wrt the code in the freebsd repository depends on the combined opinion of members, aka "voting". This is my vote. It is a perfectly good option to have in 'cat', but it seems out-of-place to turn the 'date' command into a filter. Others in the project can express their own votes, whatever those votes may be. If there are a fair number of votes for adding this option to the 'date' command, then certainly I will be happy with that result. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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