From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 2:19:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F06914D18 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 02:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02565 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:18:04 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 2563; Thu Aug 12 11:17:43 1999 Message-ID: <37B2917A.6CBBC950@cdsec.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:18:50 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: New tests for test(1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all 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? Anyone else think this is a good idea? -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message