suggested addition to 'date'

[Lucas James]

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


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