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newer – compare file modification times

Synopsis

newer [option] src1 [ src2 … srcN ] target

Exit successfully if files src1 … srcN exist and at least one of them is not older than target. Also exit successfully if target doesn’t exist.

newer accepts the following options:

–help

Print help message and exit.

–quiet, -q

Do not print any output, including error messages.

–version

Print version information and exit.

–verbose, -v

List missing source files. This is the default.