Comparing modified times of files

[Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]]

In article <6067 at iron6.UUCP> yeates at motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) writes:
>krs at uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes:
>
>># sh or ksh fragment
>>newest() {
>>	set -- ls -t $* 2>/dev/null
>>	echo $1
>>	}
>>oldest() {
>>	set -- ls -rt $* 2>/dev/null
>>	echo $1
>>	}
>
>Can you have functions in Bourne Shell scripts?  I thought this was 
>only available in Ksh.

Well, it works in my Bourne shell.  :-)
...Kris
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