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philosophical wishlist

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

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From: Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen <at> gmail.com>
To: 7486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7486: philosophical wishlist
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
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