[Eug-lug] shell evilness

[Fred James]

larry price wrote:

> a. the -v option adjusts the time to be displayed
> date -v+1d +%A
> prints tomorrows weekday name.
>
> Neil is correct in pointing out that current versions of GNU coreutils
> do not support the -v option, I was running it on a FreeBSD box, which
> uses the freebsd version of the command.
>
> I'm somewhat curious to know why GNU decided to drop the -v option as
> it can be quite useful.
> ... (omitted) ...

Larry Price
Perhaps someone could verify that the -v options is a valid option of 
'data' on some *nix system other than FreeBSD?  I have not been able to 
find it on any of the *nix systems available to me (SGI and Unisys, as 
well as Linux).  Granted, that may not mean too much.
Regards
Fred James