From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7872 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 09:33:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 09:33:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 16294 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2003 09:33:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6683 Received: (qmail 16270 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 09:33:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 09:33:05 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [62.189.183.235] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 9:33:4 -0000 Received: from EXCHANGE02.csr.com (unverified) by MAILSWEEPER01.cambridgesiliconradio.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.10) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:30:51 +0100 Received: from csr.com ([192.168.144.127]) by EXCHANGE02.csr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:31:22 +0100 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Useful zsh/datetime things In-reply-to: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:29:00 +0200." <1810.1065734940@athlon> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:30:49 +0100 Message-ID: <7396.1065778249@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Oct 2003 09:31:22.0921 (UTC) FILETIME=[44DF5990:01C38F11] 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 Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************