Bob Showalter wrote:
> 
> Well, in this case John's script is fine, because he's interested in only
> the relative values of -M when comparing one file to another. The base value
> of ^$T is irrelevant to finding the five newest files.
     ^^^
     $^T

> -M burns you in a long-running program when you want to find "files older
> than x days" where "x days from *right now*" is implied. This can be
> overcome by locally setting ^$T=time() before evaluating -M.
                              ^^^
                              $^T



John
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