On 7/15/23 00:35, Michael Partridge via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
Could you add the following to the example to the man page: ```txt Show the current date and time using a custom format $ date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" ```
IMO this is already explained: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] ... FORMAT controls the output. Interpreted sequences are: ... and some formats even show their replacements, e.g. %T time; same as %H:%M:%S The man pages should be as terse as possible, so isn't the above sufficient? Have a nice day, Berny