On 01/11/15 22:57, Evan Rempel wrote: > There is a lot of discussion on the net about prefacing a timestamp to > every line of a text stream. There are solutions with awk, perl, python > and bash. coreutils even provides one using perl. This seems to be a > very heavy tool to do something that date already does all of the hard > work for. > > Does it make sense to add an option -p --prefix to make date prefix > every line of stdin with a date/time stamp?
It's useful functionality, though already available using other tools. http://stackoverflow.com/q/21564/4421 The general rule we use is to not couple logic unless it provides a functional benefit to do so. Personally I like the awk solution presented above. cheers, Pádraig.
