On 2002-01-21 09:22:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 5) In -current would it be possible to have a few command line
> switches added to certain userland utilities? I noticed -h made it
> into `ls` now, but `cp` still doesn't have -a or -x which I used to
> use all the time in Linux. I know -a isn't a big deal but - x was
> definitely nice from time to time.
What does the -a or -x option do for the ls(1) command of Linux?
Perhaps equivalent options do already exist in FreeBSD ls(1).
> `date` having a --date option to tell you when a specified date is
> in Linux is also very nice. Just some thoughts.
If I haven't misunderstood you on this, FreeBSD's date(1) can already
do what you want, although I have to admit that it works a bit
differently than Linux's date(1).
I've recently used date(1) -j and -f options to convert arbitrary
dates to the local timezone in a script I wrote to print the
modification date of problem reports. You might want to check the
scripts at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~keramida/pr/feedback/
for samples of using date(1) to convert between timezones and date
representations. A small example that will probably help you
understand how this is done (combined with the description of the -j
and -f options in the date(1) manual page) is shown below:
hades!charon:[/home/charon]% date '+%s => %T %Z'
1011645430 => 22:37:10 EET
hades!charon:[/home/charon]% TZ=UTC date -j -f '%s' 1011645328 '+%s => %T %Z'
1011645328 => 20:35:28 GMT
Cheers,
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