Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:18:56 +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: <20010914171856.A39969@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010914232817.C19138-100000@delplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:33:18PM %2B1000 References: <20010914155552.A27691@sunbay.com> <20010914232817.C19138-100000@delplex.bde.org>
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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> Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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