Re: ! -newer: no way to distinguish between "same age" and "older"

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:28:33PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> There is find -newer and find ! -newer, but there is no way to
> distinguish between "same age" and "older", without leaving find.

True; how valuable is that functionality?   Opinions from the list?
Do we need a predicate like "-older"?



> So either add new functionality, or explain how one does it in the
> manual.
> 
> ok one must probably do -exec test -ot file \; or
> ! -newer file -exec test -ot file \; to not exec unnecessarily on each file.

Anlther way to do it is ...

  find . -printf '%T@ %p\n'

... which is documented, at least in the manpage.