Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 5:45 PM +0200 8/28/06, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >> 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. > > > 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.. I think Date's job is to output dates (and set them). To me it makes sense to include the categories of output called "Appending" and "Prepending".Received on Fri Sep 01 2006 - 18:08:13 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:59 UTC