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zobzu on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem

I don't quite think that its a "gnuism" to do that. They generally take a --color option which of course is off by default.

They did sometimes put the license everytime, a long time ago, but I don't see that anymore unless you ask the version or help.

_swa8 on May 25, 2012 [–]

GNU programs that show a license and copyright information at startup do so when used interactively, not when in batch mode. For example:

echo 1 + 2 | bc

That doesn't produce anything except "3", even with GNU bc.

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