[Novalug] ls -d

James Ewing Cottrell III jecottrell3@comcast.net
Thu Oct 20 00:01:35 EDT 2016


Newer implies RELATIVE Age, not Absolute Age.

The Odovician Period is newer than the Cambrian Period.

Period.

JIM

P.S. It may very well be in System III, me thinks thy memory might be 
Hazy. I googled a bit

On 10/19/2016 10:33 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:55:41PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell III via Novalug wrote:
>>
>> Please NEVER EVER use
>>
>> 	-exec whatever {} ';'
>>
>> It is OBSOLETE. he damn thing forks whatever FOR EACH FILE. In some VERY
>> RARE cases, this MAY be what you want. Please use the newer
>>
>> 	-exec whatever {} +
>
> Please don't call it "newer".  I once checked back in my old
> Unix manuals and it was present in System III and maybe even
> prior to that.  Yes technically it is newer than ';', but a
> 35 years old feature is hardly "newer".
>
>    :-))
>
> jl
>



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