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Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer |
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Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:24:44 +0100 |
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[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
0001-doc-relate-anewer-cnewer-and-newer-to-their-newerXY-.patch
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