From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 23:44:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E3B37BDEE for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.72]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10986; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01083; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:42:24 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Matt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date Command Message-ID: <20000725234224.B307@pool0460.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200007261609220628.0522DC20@10.1.1.105> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200007261609220628.0522DC20@10.1.1.105>; from matts@thepentagon.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:09:22PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:09:22PM +0930, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to use the date command, to > display the name of the current day.. eg 'Wednesday' > and nothing else? > I can't seem to work it out from man date. 'Cause it's on the strftime(3) page which is in the 'SEE ALSO' of date(1). % date +%A -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message