On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:55:20PM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote:
> tlaro...@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.
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