From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Useful zsh/datetime things
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:30:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7396.1065778249@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:29:00 +0200." <1810.1065734940@athlon>
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Bart wrote:
> > A useful addition to strftime would be an option to assign the result to a
> > parameter, similar to the -A and -H options of "stat" (from zsh/stat).
>
> Don't really see the point of that. $(...) does the job and it is more
> obvious what it does than some option letter.
Well, if you passed it an associative array you could arrange it so that
the element "m" was given the value of the "%m" output, and so on. But
that looks like overkill.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-10 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 17:27 Bart Schaefer
2003-10-09 17:49 ` Phil Pennock
2003-10-10 4:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-10 12:42 ` Phil Pennock
2003-10-09 18:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-10-09 18:12 ` Phil Pennock
2003-10-10 2:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-10 12:56 ` Phil Pennock
2003-10-10 16:46 ` Dan Nelson
2003-10-09 21:29 ` Oliver Kiddle
2003-10-10 2:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-10-10 9:30 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2003-10-22 15:31 ` Bart Schaefer
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