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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to compare file modification time in bourne shell script
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Date: 26 Jul 90 21:01:49 GMT
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In article <Jul90.102745.21330@x.co.uk>,
	mike@x.co.uk (Mike Moore) writes:
)...
)     newer() {
)       file=$1
)       set `ls -t $1 $2`   # func args are now changed
)       [ $file = $1 ] && return 0 || return 1
)     }

Equivalently:

     newer() {
       file=$1
       set `ls -t $1 $2`   # func args are now changed
       [ $file = $1 ]
     }

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