On 12 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Graham Wheeler <[email protected]> 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.

Hmm... this is in pdksh too...

> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [email protected]
> 

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