On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-09-04 11:36, James Youngman wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > - the item 'Add tests which allow [acm]time to be compared against a
>> > specified timestamp' seems already available by using -newerXt, or
>> > do I misunderstand?
>>
>> I guess "tests" is a little ambiguous. The regression test suite
>> does not test -mtime and friends, but it should.
>
> Is this along the right lines? I started with 'amin' because it's at
> the top of excuses.txt.
I've long avoided doing it like that for what's probably a stupid
reason; what if the script takes more than 3 minutes to run?
(Clearly in this case is just won't on any reasonable system so I
think your approach can work).
> $ pwd
> /home/nick/findutils/find
>
> $ cat testsuite/find.gnu/amin.exp
>
> exec rm -rf tmp.amin
> exec mkdir tmp.amin
>
> # Touch the files in the setup phase, to make sure sec_since_epoch
> # is as recent as possible.
> proc prep {} {
> set sec_since_epoch [clock seconds]
> for {set i 0} {$i < 10} {incr i} {
> set sec [expr $sec_since_epoch - 60 * $i]
> exec touch --date=@$sec tmp.amin/min-$i.test
Unfortunately this relies on GNU touch. Writing test scripts in
expect is a bit of a pain, and not having a utimes builtin is a
problem here.
> }
> }
> find_start p { tmp.amin -type f -amin -3 } "" "" prep
>
> exec rm -rf tmp.amin
>
> $ cat testsuite/find.gnu/amin.xo
> tmp.amin/min-0.test
> tmp.amin/min-1.test
> tmp.amin/min-2.test
>
> Thanks
> --
> Nick
>
>
>
