From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 08:52:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110515065255.GA425@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110514215520.GA15310@dinah>
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:55:20PM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote:
> 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.
Thanks! test a -nt b will do.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-15 6:52 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
2011-05-15 6:52 ` tlaronde [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110515065255.GA425@polynum.com \
--to=tlaronde@polynum.com \
--cc=9fans@9fans.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).