[adding the ML again] On 11/21/20 6:15 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Wow! That's a surprise. It could be clarified, at the same time as answering > the question "how do I compare with some > other time of the reference file?" by adding a little text, for example: > > True if the time of the last access (or status change or data > modification) > of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification > of the @var{reference} file. -anewer is equivalent to -neweram, -cnewer > to -newercm, and -newer to -newermm > (@ref{Comparing Timestamps}). > > > Would something like that help?
Sure, thanks. I added some filling word to avoid to have the '-anewer' at the begin of a sentence (which would look odd). I also removed the @ref{...} because we are in that same section already. Pushed at: https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=f65445d23c Thanks & have a nice day, Berny
>From f65445d23c902253af96f97d336378a78851b474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:04:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: relate -anewer, -cnewer, and -newer to their -newerXY equivalents * doc/find.texi (Comparing Timestamps): Clarify that the above options are equivalent to the options -neweram, -newercm and -newermm. Suggested by Reuben Thomas. --- doc/find.texi | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi index 0d7c8ae8..243fec11 100644 --- a/doc/find.texi +++ b/doc/find.texi @@ -1002,6 +1002,8 @@ rm -f /tmp/stamp$$ True if the time of the last access (or status change or data modification) of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification of the @var{reference} file. +As such, @samp{-anewer} is equivalent to @samp{-neweram}, +@samp{-cnewer} to @samp{-newercm}, and @samp{-newer} to @samp{-newermm}. If @var{reference} is a symbolic link and the @samp{-H} option or the @samp{-L} option is in effect, then the time of the last data modification of the file -- 2.29.2