/bin/date and coreutils

[David Liontooth]

paul beard wrote:
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> On May 7, 2007, at 11:52 AM, David Liontooth wrote:
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>> The date utility is bundled in coreutils on debian, along with cat chown
>>
>> df ln and so on -- I imagine this can't easily be ported?
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> I think you're covered: 
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> port info coreutils
> coreutils 6.9, sysutils/coreutils (Variants: universal,
> with_default_names, nls)
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>
> The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell, and text
> manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core
> utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system.
> Previously these utilities were offered as three individual sets of
> GNU utilities, fileutils, shellutils, and textutils. Those three have
> been combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils.
>
> Library Dependencies: libiconv
Thanks, Paul --

sorry for thinking it was so unlikely this was ported that I didn't even
look! I'll be interested to see what's included.

This is very cool, as it allows my scripts to be crossplatform.

Dave
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