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bug#7486: philosophical wishlist
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#7486: philosophical wishlist |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:28:10 +0200 |
severity 7486 wishlist
tags 7486 + notabug
thanks
Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
> --example
>
> Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
> functioning as a reminder.
>
> This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
> R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
> example(fun)
>
> and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun.
>
> Extremely usefull!
Thanks for the suggestion.
Marking as notabug/wishlist.
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