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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:20:39 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to Show Environment Variables
Message-ID:  <20001105092039.H5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF6E7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:29:18AM -0800
References:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF6E7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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* Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> [001105 08:29] wrote:
> 
> I would also like to know how to show the current system time.  I've found
> the 'time' command but this doesn't appear to be what I want.
> 
> Is there a web page somewhere that lists some of these simple commands?
> Unfortunately, man pages are only good if you know the command you are
> looking for.  Or am I missing some feature of the man pages?

try:  man -k <keyword>

"man -k time" gives a pretty huge list of choices including:

date(1)                  - display or set date and time

which is what you want.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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