Subject: bug#7486: philosophical wishlist

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:03:14 -0700

On 11/26/2010 08:47 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> 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!

Thanks for reporting this.  However, you'll need to report this to the
[email-masked] list to get it accepted into the GNU Coding
Standards before we could reasonably ask all GNU programs to consider
adding this functionality.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces

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