From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 9:20:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B966737B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA5HKdZ18733; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:20:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:20:39 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: How to Show Environment Variables Message-ID: <20001105092039.H5112@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from drewt@writeme.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:29:18AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Drew Tomlinson [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 "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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message