Re: Date trouble
Re: Date trouble
- Subject: Re: Date trouble
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:08:55 -0600
At 17:42 +0200 10/23/06, ishmael wrote:
>Thanks (also) for the minor disgression! it was useful, to me at
>least...More or less on the same topic: you use %F instead of
>%H:%M:%S, because is a "single-specifier shortcut"...what is a
>single-specifier shortcut"? where can i find some documentation on
>shell script, and this kind of things?
Of course it's not off topic. MacOS, and therefore AppleScript, are "UNIX underneath" and proud of it - I think. Overcome your reluctance to use Terminal.app. Open a new shell window and type:
man date (RETURN)
Use the space bar to proceed down the pages. The man system in UNIX has all the answers though they may be a bit cryptic at first. But then AppleScript dictionaries are far more cryptic (I duck).
apropos date
is another command you can try. Actually man date may refer you to another kind of man page that will have a number - like 3. Those are for "real" programmers but they're still instructive. Use
man 3 whatever
to explore those references.
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