Re: [Quilt-dev] Unusual operator in quilt/pop.in

[Peter Williams]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 06:57, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > I've been reading the quilt scripts in preparation to proposing some
> > patches and have come across some bash code that I don't understand at
> > line 86 of the 0.40 version of quilt/pop.in.  I am not familiar with and
> > am unable to find any mention of the -ot operator in any bash
> > documentation.  Can any one enlighten me?
>
>
> It's not difficult. Man bash and a search for -ot reveals:
>
>        file1 -ot file2
>               True  if file1 is older than file2, or if file2 exists and file1
>               does not.

Thanks.  I guess that I didn't look hard enough.

Peter
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