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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:55:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514215520.GA15310@dinah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110514212524.GA28019@polynum.com>

tlaronde@polynum.com once said:
> There is one utility used by MetaPost scripts: a binary "newer" using
> POSIX (sys/stat.h) mainly because if on POSIX compliant systems one can
> use find(1) with "-cnewer", Plan9 has not find(1).
>
> [...]
>
> What would be the prefered way using utilities available on Plan9 (and
> accessible for ape/sh) since the scripts are Bourne shell ones.

The Plan 9 test(1) has "newer than" and "older than"
expressions just like the Korn shell's built-in.

  Anthony



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-14 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-14 21:25 tlaronde
2011-05-14 21:55 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2011-05-15  6:52   ` tlaronde

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