Graham Wheeler <g...@cequrux.com> writes:
> I was writing a script yesterday, and I wanted to have a test to compare
> the modification time of two files. test(1) doesn't have the ability to
> do this. In the end I worked around this by using make(1), but it set me
> thinking - wouldn't it be a good idea to add some new tests to test(1),
> to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date?

NetBSD's test(1) utility has this (-nt and -ot). We should probably
merge in their changes.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no


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