On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> The man page says:
> file1 -nt file2
> True if file1 is newer (according to modification date) than
> file2, or if file1 exists and file2 does not.
Ah. The "help test" page is shorter:
FILE1 -nt FILE2 True if f
On 8/10/11 2:53 PM, Curtis Doty wrote:
> Or maybe I'm not groking. When one compares against a b0rk symlink, the
> result of -nt (newer than) is true--when it isn't!
>
> mkdir directory
> ln -s noexist symlink
> touch -hr directory symlink
>
> test directory -nt symlink &&echo yes ||echo
> * Curtis Doty [2011-08-10 11:53:52 -0700]:
>
> They have identical mtimes (as set by touch)--i.e. the directory is
> *not* newer than the symlink--but it still outputs "yes". Why?
mtime for a symlink comes from stat(), not stat().
anything is newer than a non-existent object.
--
Sam Steingold
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:53:52AM -0700, Curtis Doty wrote:
> touch -hr directory symlink
touch: illegal option -- h
Hmm, what is that? Let's check a GNU/Linux box:
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful
only o
Or maybe I'm not groking. When one compares against a b0rk symlink, the
result of -nt (newer than) is true--when it isn't!
mkdir directory
ln -s noexist symlink
touch -hr directory symlink
test directory -nt symlink &&echo yes ||echo no
They have identical mtimes (as set by touch)--i.e
