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| author | Daniel Bertalan <dani@danielbertalan.dev> | 2022-02-25 21:40:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Groh <mail@linusgroh.de> | 2022-03-08 23:30:47 +0100 |
| commit | 7bd68c86d3ed6cac4c3abb165b3cc6b91973d41a (patch) | |
| tree | 1886283d615610bf6301e8f42c841fedaa0300dc /Base | |
| parent | 01dc718f079bb9c5c56e408f235df52852270d11 (diff) | |
| download | serenity-7bd68c86d3ed6cac4c3abb165b3cc6b91973d41a.zip | |
date: Allow using a custom format string
This commit adds an optional string positional argument which is used a
custom format string for the date.
Diffstat (limited to 'Base')
| -rw-r--r-- | Base/usr/share/man/man1/date.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Base/usr/share/man/man1/date.md b/Base/usr/share/man/man1/date.md index e05d0096a6..8ec6c346f7 100644 --- a/Base/usr/share/man/man1/date.md +++ b/Base/usr/share/man/man1/date.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ date - print or set the system date and time ## Synopsis ```**sh -$ date [--set date] [--unix] [--iso-8601] [--rfc-3339] [--rfc-5322] +$ date [--set date] [--unix] [--iso-8601] [--rfc-3339] [--rfc-5322] [format-string] ``` ## Description @@ -21,12 +21,19 @@ or print the system date and time in various formats. * `-r`, `--rfc-3339`: Print date in RFC 3339 format * `-R`, `--rfc-5322`: Print date in RFC 5322 format +## Arguments + +* `format-string`: Custom format to print the date in. Must start with a '+' character. + ## Examples ```sh # Print the current date and time in ISO 8601 format $ date --iso-8601 +# Print the current date in a custom format +$ date +%Y-%m-%d + # Set date to 1610017485 (UNIX time) $ date -s 1610017485 ``` |