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Re: bash conditional expressions
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash conditional expressions |
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Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:09:36 -0500 |
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On 11/17/21 5:16 AM, Michael J. Baars wrote:
>> Why do you think `touch -am', which sets the atime and mtime to the same
>> value, should make -N true?
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> When -N stands for NEW
It doesn't, though. It could just as easily be a mnemonic for "new activity
in the file." You're using it to mean `new' because it's convenient for
your application, or the mental model you have for it, but that's just an
invention.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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