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anyone home?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: David H <evolvemeans <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:58:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: David H <evolvemeans <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: anyone home?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:27:37 -0600

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anyone home?

to help lowly newbies with the "date" command in bash.

please include 1 example that shows the '+' character in front of the format
string. It winds up taking a lot of looking to figure out this simple
syntax.

Thanks

David Heitzman

-- 
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: David H <evolvemeans <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8064-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8064: anyone home?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:50:30 +0100

David H wrote:
> anyone home?
>
> to help lowly newbies with the "date" command in bash.
>
> please include 1 example that shows the '+' character in front of the format
> string. It winds up taking a lot of looking to figure out this simple
> syntax.

I ran "info coreutils date" (because "man date" suggests it),
then searched for "date \+".  Here are two:

     $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z'  # %z is a GNU extension.
     2004-02-29 16:21:42 -0800
     $ date +'@%s.%N'  # %s and %N are GNU extensions.
     @1078100502.692722128
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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