Thank you for your response, Berny.
It does not specify whether or not the `+` goes outside the double
quotes or not.
I understand the goal of conciseness, but not at the expense of useful
examples.
You could change the example to:
date "+%T"
if you'd like.
The point is, no example shows use of the `+` with a format string.
What is the argument for not including that?
MCP
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:04 AM Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de>
wrote:
> 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
>
