Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer

2020-11-22 Thread Bernhard Voelker
[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

Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer

2020-11-21 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/21/20 2:18 PM, Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for the GNU find utilities wrote: > The manual (current git) says: > > 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{refere

Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer

2020-11-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-11-21 Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for the GNU find utilities wrote: > The manual (current git) says: > 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} f

Imprecision in documentation of -newer

2020-11-21 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for the GNU find utilities
The manual (current git) says: 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. > Presumably it really means: True if the time of the last access (or status chan