Subject: bug#8064: closed (Re: bug#8064: anyone home?)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:42:02 +0000

Your bug report

#8064: anyone home?

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#8064: anyone home?
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: David H <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:50:30 +0100
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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

Subject: anyone home?
From: David H <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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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