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25.3; Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed"

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From: "John Wiegley" <johnw <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, 29157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#29157: 25.3;
 Eshell parsing fails sometimes, e.g. "date" and "sed"
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:21:01 -0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

EZ> Not just eshell/date: many Eshell built-ins behave like that, and they do
EZ> that on purpose.

eshell/date is an alias for `current-time-string'. The fact that this Lisp
function accepts arguments, and those arguments can be passed on the Eshell
command-line, isn't something I thought of at the time.

In hindsight, a separate eshell/date function should have been created that
would handle its arguments like the system command.

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