From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 4: 1:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cube.gelatinous.com (cube.gelatinous.com [207.82.194.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABCE11577E for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 04:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaron@gelatinous.com) Received: (qmail 13572 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Aug 1999 11:01:48 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 04:01:48 -0700 From: Aaron Smith To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New tests for test(1) Message-ID: <19990812040148.A13484@gelatinous.com> References: <37B2917A.6CBBC950@cdsec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37B2917A.6CBBC950@cdsec.com>; from Graham Wheeler on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:18:50AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this seems undesirable to me, since using it immediately makes your shell scripts nonportable. i liked the ls -t suggestion though. -- Aaron Smith aaron@mutex.org On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:18:50AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message