Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Robert Elz wrote:

>    Date:        Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:06:42 +0800 (PHT)
>    From:        Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.64.1606101606110.2868%pokey.whooppee.com@localhost>
>
>  | > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 02:18:16PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
>  | >> I'd like to suggest adding new primitives
>  | >>
>  | >> 	-asince "timestamp"
>  | >> 	-csince "timestamp"
>
>  | I'll get started on the changes tomorrow.
>
> But add all 3 (useful) inode times, not just 2 of them (you can
> ignore birthtime, as does almost everything else, that's a waste
> of inode space)

yeah Birth is useless.   :)


> Along with -{a,c}{newer,min,time} there is also -mmin -mtime and -newer
> (and yes, slight pity that the naming is not all consistent, but -newer
> has been there much longer than the others).

It was my intent to also add -since (for consistency with -newer).  I 
_knew_ there was another one, I simply missed it the first time around.


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