Date: 9 Dec 1997 21:01:22 -0000 From: are@communique.no To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/5269: Wrong parsing of /bin/date (1) parameters Message-ID: <19971209210122.4119.qmail@david.communique.no> Resent-Message-ID: <199712102230.OAA25672@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5269
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Wrong parsing of /bin/date (1) parameters
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 10 14:30:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Are Bryne
>Organization:
Communique DA
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:
Last cvsup'ed all sources at Dec 3 23:24 CET, and did a make world
afterwards.
>Description:
date(1) says it takes the following command line arguments:
usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [+format]
[-v [+|-]val[ymwdHM]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]]
When supplying both a <format> and the -v option, I am required to swap
the placement to the opposite of what I'm told to do.
>How-To-Repeat:
% date +%y -v-1y
date: illegal time format
% date -v-1y +%y
96
>Fix:
Change the documentation, or parse the command line differently. If any change
is made to the parsing, it should perhaps accept both variants.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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