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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] test command
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:38:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10809100638s4680e934gca40c7cffcdfae4b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D86CE8-C424-4C7C-9748-84AA62D3F2A4@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Kenji Arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> "test" command of plan 9 has a operator "older", the usage is:
>        test f -older t
> where f is a file and t is a time.
> however the command does not have "newer" operator.
> why?
>

If a < b, and you want to know if b > a, can't you just do a < b?

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 10:19 Kenji Arisawa
2008-09-10 13:38 ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-09-10 14:16   ` Rodolfo kix García 
2008-09-10 15:21   ` David Leimbach
2008-09-10 15:27     ` Juan Céspedes
2008-09-10 16:15       ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-09-11  0:23         ` Kenji Arisawa
2008-09-11  0:36 erik quanstrom
2008-09-11  2:38 ` Russ Cox
2008-09-11 13:51   ` Kenji Arisawa

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