[vox-tech] date question

[Jeff Newmiller]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> This works:
> 
>    $ /bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M'
>    2006-09-28-11-05
> 
> This doesn't:
> 
>    $ date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M'
>    date: extra operand `+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M'
>    Try `date --help' for more information.
> 
> Yet, "/bin/date" is the thing I'm running when using an unqualified path:
> 
>    $ which date
>    /bin/date
> 
> If /bin/date is what I'm running, why doesn't this work unless I specifiy
> "/bin/date"?

Any output from

   alias | grep date

?

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