Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:39:08 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1 find.h function.c Message-ID: <20010914173908.B42991@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010914171856.A39969@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:18:56PM %2B0300 References: <20010914155552.A27691@sunbay.com> <20010914232817.C19138-100000@delplex.bde.org> <20010914171856.A39969@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:18:56PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:33:18PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:47:13AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > Bloat find(1) even more, and introduce the concept
> > > > of time units to be used with -[acm]time primaries.
> > > >
> > > > Based on patch from Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org>.
> > > >
> > > > PR: bin/29165, bin/30309
> > > >
> > > I called this bloat, because a similar feature was already
> > > available with ``-newerXt time''. I wonder, shouldn't we
> > > remove this piece of GNU code now?
> >
> > What is better about the new way? Better units? -newerXY is more
> > general.
> >
> Not quite, and I was confused here.
>
> ``-newer Xt time'' compares the file's X time against the point
> in time specified as an argument. The new syntax of -[acm]time
> allows to match the files that are _older_ or _newer_ than the
> specified amount of time units since the find(1) was run.
> For example, ``find / -mtime -1h30m'' will match files that were
> modified during the last hour and a half. And of course this
> does not replace the functionality of ``-newerX[acm] file''.
>
> To summarize:
>
> -newerX[acm] file compares against <file>
> -newerXt time compares against <time>
> -[acm]time n[smhdw] compares against NOW{+-}<n>
>
OK, I agree that the functionality available with -newerXt is
much more general, but I failed to find the description of
all of its possible formats, except some examples.
Cheers,
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