Re: [Quilt-dev] Unusual operator in quilt/pop.in

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 10 June 2005 06:57, Peter Williams wrote:
> I've been reading the quilt scripts in preparation to proposing some
> patches and have come across some bash code that I don't understand at
> line 86 of the 0.40 version of quilt/pop.in.  I am not familiar with and
> am unable to find any mention of the -ot operator in any bash
> documentation.  Can any one enlighten me?

It's not difficult. Man bash and a search for -ot reveals:

       file1 -ot file2
              True  if file1 is older than file2, or if file2 exists and file1
              does not.

-- Andreas.