Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:56:53 +1000 From: Lucas James <Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' Message-ID: <200609020956.54008.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]>
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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
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