From: "Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@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 18:15:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <599f06db0809100915v3c6bf8fft87a86129eed7f802@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68ac7f3d0809100827j174a6a08xf108e792d4087b9a@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Juan Céspedes <cespedes@lsub.org> wrote:
> Maybe I'm confused, but what Kenji said is that:
>
>> "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.
>
> If f is a file ant t is a *time*, you can't do test t -older f
>
yes, but !older is the same as younger or equal.
!(test f -older t)
would be the same (equality notwithstanding)
as
test f -younger t
But then there is = and != for strings (for example), so this argument
is thin :-).
--
- curiosity sKilled the cat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 16:15 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
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 [this message]
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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