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mention +FORMAT in ls time style reminder help blurb

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Message #40 received at 10253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 10253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, eblake <at> redhat.com
Subject: Re: bug#10253: mention +FORMAT in ls time style reminder help blurb
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:55:06 +0100

jidanni <at> jidanni.org wrote:
> JM>     $ src/ls -l --time-style=x
> "src/" even in these e-mails/commits, as it is bad for the eye, even though it
> yes surely disappears in production.

Actually, using the "src/" prefix (or some prefix, like "./")
is important.  Otherwise, I'm not testing what I've just built.
Hence, including that prefix shows what I've done.  Without it,
the reader would wonder if I'd simply used whatever ls is in my path,
which could easily represent a mistake.

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