[debbugs-tracker] bug#21809: closed ("touch": -d option format incorrect documentation)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: "touch": -d option format incorrect documentation Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 15:20:04 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0

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.

This is just a documentation error.

Have a wonderful day.

Remy Fourre

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#21809: "touch": -d option format incorrect documentation Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 20:40:51 +0000 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0

On 01/11/15 18:34, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

There were a few more issues in this area,
which are all hopefully addressed in the attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

info-short-params.patch
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