Re: UNIX DATE
Re: UNIX DATE
- Subject: Re: UNIX DATE
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:44:40 -0700
On 4/26/04 2:53 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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> Which OS? When you check 'man strftime' in Terminal, there's no "%F" listed?
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Hi, Paul.
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As you guessed later in your post, I have Jaguar. I typed 'man strftime'
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into the Terminal window and the reply was 'No manual entry for
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strftime'. This reminded me of a discussion last year on
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Macscripter.net's Code Exchange, which I've just look up. (It was exactly
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a year ago today, as it happens.) Someone else had mentioned the '%F'
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parameter, I'd pointed out that it just produced 'F', he'd mentioned 'man
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strftime', I'd reported 'no manual entry'. Greg Spence then explained:
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"NIgel, 'strftime' is in man3 which is not formatted by default to save
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space. There are 9 man files in /usr/share/man/ In order to use the other
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man files, you'll need to format them by using the 'catman' command...
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% cd /usr/share/man/
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% sudo catman 3"
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I didn't bother to check it out, as it sounded like even more junk on my
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hard drive and the only advantage was the ability to write slower scripts
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that only ran on certain systems and were only legible if you were into
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'%' symbols. I subsequently forgot about it.
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Perhaps man3 comes preformatted in Pather.
I'm pretty sure it came pre-formatted in Jaguar for me too. I was able to
get 'man strftime' when I was in Jaguar - even in OS 10.1, as I recall. I
first played around with these Unix date shell script commands in OS 10.1
when I could no longer use Akua Sweets as I had been doing in OS 8/9. I
never had to use the 'catman' command, let alone a sudo that I can recall -
I don't remember this discussion, but I did have 'man strftime'. (Very
possibly I did not have "%F" back then - but I really don't remember.) I
have been doing the full, complete, all-options OS X install from the
beginning, however. Maybe I "expanded" man3 very early on in a beta OS or
something, but I don't recall doing so now. Interesting.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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