Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.2-4
Severity: minor

>From the manpage:

       -newerXY reference
              Compares  the timestamp of the current file with reference.  The
              reference argument is normally the name of a file  (and  one  of
              its  timestamps is used for the comparison) but it may also be a
              string describing an absolute time.  X and  Y  are  placeholders
              for other letters, and these letters select which time belonging
              to how reference is used for the comparison.

The final sentence is ungrammatical.  Nothing explicitly says what X
and Y are.  It is possible, with close reading, to infer from the
discussion of invalid combinations that X is which timestamp of the
current file to look at, and Y is how the reference value or filename
is dealt with.  I think there must be some text missing near `belong
to how reference'.

The text in the info node `(find.info.gz)Comparing Timestamps' is much
better.

Thanks,
Ian.


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