Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: find, resolution
Summary: Er, read the manual again, folks.
Message-ID: <8146@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 20 Oct 88 12:49:09 GMT
References: <177@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <177@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>Someone sent back that their manual said "-mtime -n" would find files
>modified within the past n days, and "-mtime +n" would find files
>modified at least n days ago.
>
>My manuals (SCO Xenix) do not include this, but my "find" program does.

In the paragraph marked `Description', there is a sentence which reads:

	'In the descriptions, the argument _n is used as a decimal
	 integer where _+_n means more than _n, _-_n means less than _n
	 and _n means exactly _n.'

			-- find(C), User's Reference
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