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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,
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