On 11/26/2010 08:47 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: > All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag: > --example > > Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples, > functioning as a reminder. > > This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org). > R has a command example(9, which is invokes as > example(fun) > > and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun. > > Extremely usefull!
Thanks for reporting this. However, you'll need to report this to the [email protected] list to get it accepted into the GNU Coding Standards before we could reasonably ask all GNU programs to consider adding this functionality. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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