From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:52:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (File characteristic tests): Document the
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_8~24
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2ed2e78cf26a8cd226efd5b3cc99b76347d2e66;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git

(File characteristic tests): Document the
behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index bd72a4ff5..db8ff0faa 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8323,13 +8323,13 @@ True if @var{file} exists and has a size greater than zero.
 @opindex -nt
 @cindex newer-than file check
 True if @var{file1} is newer (according to modification date) than
-@var{file2}.
+@var{file2}, or if @var{file1} exists and @var{file2} does not.
 
 @item @var{file1} -ot @var{file2}
 @opindex -ot
 @cindex older-than file check
 True if @var{file1} is older (according to modification date) than
-@var{file2}.
+@var{file2}, or if @var{file2} exists and @var{file1} does not.
 
 @item @var{file1} -ef @var{file2}
 @opindex -ef