On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:46:57PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> So you're saying cal should check stdout and not use escapes if it is a
> pipe, right? Why's that? YOu can easily remove the highlighting with
> option -h as you did yourself.
It makes cal non-portable if you're post-processing output. BSD cal
doesn't support -h (nor -C, which accomplishes the same thing).
> I'm not saying it shouldn't I just wonder why this is a bug rather than
> a suggestion. Could you point me to some document saying that cal should
> behave like you say it should?
Yes, cal(1). :)
"The output of the cal command is supposed to be bit for bit
compatible to the original Unix cal command, because its output is
processed by other programs like CGI scripts, that should not be
broken."
Thanks for your work on Debian!
- Aaron
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