Re: Imprecision in documentation of -newer

[Bernhard Voelker]

[adding the ML again]

On 11/21/20 6:15 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Wow! That's a surprise. It could be clarified, at the same time as answering 
> the question "how do I compare with some
> other time of the reference file?" by adding a little text, for example:
>
>     True if the time of the last access (or status change or data 
> modification)
>     of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification
>     of the @var{reference} file. -anewer is equivalent to -neweram, -cnewer 
> to -newercm, and -newer to -newermm
>     (@ref{Comparing Timestamps}).
>
>
> Would something like that help?

Sure, thanks.
I added some filling word to avoid to have the '-anewer' at the begin of a 
sentence
(which would look odd).  I also removed the @ref{...} because we are in that 
same
section already.

Pushed at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=f65445d23c

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny

0001-doc-relate-anewer-cnewer-and-newer-to-their-newerXY-.patch
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