Re: suggested addition to 'date'

From: Oliver Fromme <olli_at_lurza.secnetix.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:45:49 +0200 (CEST)
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.  That would also enable you to be more
 > > flexible with the placement of the timestamps.
 > > For example:
 > > 
 > > $ printf 'foo\nbar\nbaz\n' | date +'%H:%M:%S %*'
 > > 16:39:58 foo
 > > 16:39:58 bar
 > > 16:39:58 baz
 > 
 > I prefer this of all the suggestions so far.

It's not very difficult, so I created a patch which does
exactly that (includes an addition for the manpage, too).
I've submitted it as bin/102609:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=102609

Best regards
   Oliver

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Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 13:46:49 UTC

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