severity 6055 wishlist thanks Ursula A. Kallio wrote: > Hello. Please consider adding an example to the date man page. > > Even something simple suffices: > date +%Y%m%d
The man page is provided only as a quick reference document. In order to facilitate maintenance it is generated automatically from the online help in 'date --help' as you indicated in your subject. But there just isn't very much space that can be allocated there for every aspect of the command. It is already quite long. Plus the full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'date invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. It contains extensive examples and other useful documentation. Please refer to it for the many fine examples there. Bob
