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Re: date: new options to parse input date with strptime(3)
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Stephane Chazelas |
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Re: date: new options to parse input date with strptime(3) |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:15:09 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20171215 |
2019-08-01 03:24:29 -0600, Assaf Gordon:
[...]
> > > I like this, and think it's useful functionality.
> > > It's equivalent to -f in date(1) on FreeBSD,
> > > so we should probably support that short option
> > [...]
> >
> > Note that busybox date has -D for that.
>
> In gnu date(1), -f is already assigned to "--file" (batch processing).
> I added the "-D" short option.
Sorry, I forgot to mention ast-open's -p/--parse (already there
in 2004) which predates busybox' -D (2006):
-p, --parse=format
Add format to the list of strptime(3) parse conversion
formats. format follows the same conventions as the --format
option, with the addition of these format fields:
| If the format failed before this point then restart
the parse with the remaining format.
& Call the tmdate(3) heuristic parser. This is is the
default when --parse is omitted.
--
Stephane