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Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:55:20 -0700
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9
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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