Subject: bug#7486: philosophical wishlist

From: Kjetil Halvorsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:47:43 -0300

All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
--example

Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
functioning as a reminder.

This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
example(fun)

and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun.

Extremely usefull!

Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen