tlaro...@polynum.com once said: > There is one utility used by MetaPost scripts: a binary "newer" using > POSIX (sys/stat.h) mainly because if on POSIX compliant systems one can > use find(1) with "-cnewer", Plan9 has not find(1). > > [...] > > What would be the prefered way using utilities available on Plan9 (and > accessible for ape/sh) since the scripts are Bourne shell ones.
The Plan 9 test(1) has "newer than" and "older than" expressions just like the Korn shell's built-in. Anthony