Re: Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter'

At 4:36 PM -0400 9/6/06, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>....   But I'd certainly be willing to
>install the result as a separate new command if that would work
>better.  If there is support for that, I would install it as an
>`sfilter' command.  Simple Filter.

Actually, I have another useful option in mind that could be added
with very little effort.  So let me say that I do intend to install
this as a new /usr/bin/sfilter command, assuming that does not
generate too many objections.  I expect this will work out better
than adding new options to `date' or to `cat'.

For those wondering what other esoteric option I would add, it's
a pretty simple addition.  An option to prefix the lines with a
relative timestamp (#seconds since the first line), instead of
a strftime() stamp.

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