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Date:      24 Jul 1998 09:57:10 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/time time.1 time.c
Message-ID:  <xzpk953vfzd.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:19:32 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199807240719.AAA11603@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/time         time.1 time.c 
>   Log:
>   By default, /usr/bin/time writes its output to stderr.  Two options
>   have been added to time(1) to write output to an alternative destination.
>   Option "-f filename" will write to filename, and filename can be - to
>   write to stdout.  Option "-a filename" will append the output to filename.
>   Time(1) man page has been updated to reflect the change.

What? Didn't you read the audit trail? There's absolutely no reason to
add these options; output redirection does all that and more. This is
just clutter.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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