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

[James Youngman]

Sounds good, please send a patch.

On Wed 10 Apr 2019, 14:51 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>