On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:31:36PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > I think I have (with some delay) located a second one billion bug. > When searching for the newest version of one file with a little script, I > used the date command (with options -r,+%s). > The result was not, as expected, the latest file, but the latest with a time > less than one billion. This one isn't of course a native second one billion > problem but more a problem of the bash-tests. As this hasn't been done on a > debian system (but bash 2.05a). Perhaps anyone can verify this is also > present on debian systems (I'm currently far far away from a running one)?
If I am following you correctly, this is probably a sorting problem.
Sort the times as ctimes in numerical, not alphabetical order. Since:
99999999 < 1000000000
"999999999" > "1000000000"
Where "" indicates a string. In perl (and I know you're using bash), the
difference is `sort ($a $b)` (default alphabetical) versus
`sort {$a <=> $b} ($a $b)` (numerical).
What exact command did you use?
Perhaps.
James
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