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bug#21809: "touch": -d option format incorrect documentation
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From: |
Pádraig Brady |
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bug#21809: "touch": -d option format incorrect documentation |
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Date: |
Sun, 1 Nov 2015 18:34:31 +0000 |
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On 01/11/15 14:20, Rémy Fourré wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The "touch" utility has a date option (-d).
> A command such as
> touch -d 2015-10-15
> works well, but the documentation (both info and man pages) calls for:
> touch -d="2015-10-15"
> and this does not work.
Well not exactly.
The long format --date=.... works.
Now I do agree that the info docs have more scope for clarifying that,
and we do already for `df -T` for example:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/df
I'll patch the info docs accordingly.
thanks,
Pádraig.