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Can't say "if File is older than file" over the phone


From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Subject: Can't say "if File is older than file" over the phone
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:31:50 +0800

To increase the accessibility of the find man page and INFO file,
please change lines like

       -newer file
              File was modified more recently than file.  If file is a symbolic 
link and the -H option or the -L option is in effect, the modification time of 
the file it points to is always used.
       -anewer file
              File was last accessed more recently than file was modified.  If 
file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is in effect, the 
access time of the file it points to is always used.
       -cnewer file
              File's status was last changed more recently than file was 
modified.  If file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is in 
effect, the status-change time of the file it points to is always used.


to instead be more like

       -newerXY reference
              Succeeds if timestamp X of the file being considered is newer 
than timestamp Y of the file reference.  The letters X and Y can be any of the 
following letters:


I mean just try and read it over the phone to someone,

"File was modified more recently than file."
"James is older than james".

Not only is it impossible to read understandably over the phone, people
with certain disabilities will have trouble with it too.

"File was modified more recently than ref_file."
"James is older than jamesX".

Much better.

Let's see how it looks:
       -cnewer ref_file
              File's status was last changed more recently than ref_file was 
modified.  If ref_file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is 
in effect, the status-change time of the file it points to is always used.
Or            File's status was last changed more recently than ref_file was 
modified.  If ref_file is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is 
in effect, the status-change time of the file ref_file points to is always used.




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