options for 'date' via busybox

2009-08-16 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, i'm trying to use date to print the date in a format i want, but i'm finding the options difficult to work with. using a full 'date' on my desktop, i can do: $ date -d now +%B to print the name of the month as a text string, but the cut down version on shr doesn't like this, complaining a

Re: options for 'date' via busybox

2009-08-16 Thread Christian Himpel
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:52, Robin Paulson wrote: > are there any other apps/scripts/methods around that will return > similar, and run on the freerunner? you could install coreutils. it contains another (maybe more common) `date' implementation. regards, chressie _

Re: options for 'date' via busybox

2009-08-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/16 Christian Himpel : > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:52, Robin Paulson wrote: >> are there any other apps/scripts/methods around that will return >> similar, and run on the freerunner? > > you could install coreutils. it contains another (maybe more common) > `date' implementation. cheers for