suggested addition to 'date'

[Garance A Drosehn]

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.

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