Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:41:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New tests for test(1) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121141100.90630-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <xzplnbhtjvx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 12 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Graham Wheeler <gram@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.
Hmm... this is in pdksh too...
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
>
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