Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
1. Other utils do not require `-` to be specified, do they? For example,
the manpage for sed says:
> if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read.
Why date requires it?
2. In any case, I think it should be documented to pass `-` to read from
stdin
3. The command `stat --format "%Y" check.txt | date -f-` does not work.
It returns:
> date: invalid date ‘1705140089’
It looks like the -f command requires human-readable date, and won't
work with seconds since the epoch
4. On a related note, the man page I think should also document the use
of `@` for seconds since the epoch.
It provides an example:
> Convert seconds since the Epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to a date
>
> $ date --date='@2147483647'
But `@` per-se is not documented.
Thanks again and best regards,
Philips
On 13/01/2024 10.43, Marc Chantreux wrote:
hello,
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 05:14:25AM +0100, Philip Rogers wrote:
Would it be possible to implement reading from stdin in date?
already exists:
stat --format "%Y" check.txt | date -f-
regards
marc
