On 02/06/11 00:39, Jesse Gordon wrote:
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> On 6/1/2011 4:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 01/06/11 18:11, Rick Stanley wrote:
>>> The date command is very useful. A lot of features and options which I
>>> take advantage of as I need them. Every once in a while I need to use
>>> the command t
Pádraig Brady wrote:
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>> Jumpin' whale gills!
>
> Well when you put it like that :)
Heh ;-) I had the same reaction.
>> I wish I'd known about the -d @ function! I ended
>> up writing my own in Perl utility just to convert epochs to dates.
>>
>> I'm with Rick on this one. Date supports so man
Am 01.06.2011 21:30, schrieb Jim Meyering:
Ulf Zibis wrote:
You could write:
`-b SIZE'
`--bytes=SIZE'
Put SIZE bytes of INPUT into each output file. SIZE may be, or
may be an integer optionally followed by, one of the following
multiplicative suffixes:
`b' =>
I'm going with these 3.
It's a bit tricky to align --help and man output,
but this isn't too bad I think.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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Subject: [PATCH] doc: add
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I'm going with these 3.
> It's a bit tricky to align --help and man output,
> but this isn't too bad I think.
Thanks.
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: add examples to date --help
>
> * src/date.c (usage): Add examples for TZ handling,
> and "seconds since epoch" parsing, neither of
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates
>> in an EXAMPLE section in the man page.
>
> Good examples.
> I like the idea.
One tweak: use date -d "12:00 +1 day" inst