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From: yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Comparing modified times of files
Message-ID: <6067@iron6.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 18:17:53 GMT
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krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes:

># sh or ksh fragment
>newest() {
>	set -- ls -t $* 2>/dev/null
>	echo $1
>	}
>oldest() {
>	set -- ls -rt $* 2>/dev/null
>	echo $1
>	}

Can you have functions in Bourne Shell scripts?  I thought this was 
only available in Ksh.