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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Comparing modified times of files
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.164953.12877@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 16:49:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)

In article <1991Mar11.183338.9082@mrspoc.Transact.COM>, itkin@mrspoc (Steven M. List) writes:
| If you're interested in something a bit faster that can also handle a
| LIST of files, I wrote a little program a few years back that does
| a few things:
| 
|     -   compares the last modification times of the files on the command
|         line
|     -   exits with the ordinal of the newest file as the status code
|     -   prints the name of the newest file on standard output
| 
| So, just on the off-chance that someone can use it, here it is:
| -----------CUT HERE-----------------------------------------------------------
[C code deleted]

For comparison, a similar routine in Perl:

perl -e '$n = shift; $m = -M $n; for (@ARGV) {$n = $_ if -M $_ < $m;} print $n'

Just another Perl hacker,
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