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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1 find.h function.c 
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:33:18 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> > What is better about the new way?  Better units?  -newerXY is more
> > general.
>
> The new functionality allows me to specify an absolute amount of time,
> without having to create a reference file with touch -t.  This is nice
> in an environment where I have no writable filesystems available to me.

Um, -newerXY is much more general than that.  When Y is "t", it parses
dates dates of the form understood by cvs(1), e.g., "1 hour ago".

Bruce


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