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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: David H <evolvemeans <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#8064: closed (Re: bug#8064: anyone home?)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:42:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#8064: anyone home?

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 8064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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

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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

-- 
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards, or heroes.

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