Difference between revisions of "Moreutils"
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moreutils is "a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young". | moreutils is "a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young". | ||
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| + | I discovered this while looking for a solution to timestamp logfiles that programmers of a proprietary organization had seen fit not to timestamp. I didn't want the overhead of repeatedly calling 'date' that a quick-and-dirty shell script would have required. | ||
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| + | Note that for logging, the "unbuffer" command (included in most modern distros) may need to be used to get the desired behavior (e.g. when tailing files). | ||
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| + | But wait... there's still a LOT more! | ||
==What's included== | ==What's included== | ||
