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.\"
.\" cook - file construction tool
.\" Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Peter Miller;
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
.\" MANIFEST: User Guide, Built-In Functions, Sort_newest
.\"
.H 2 "sort_newest"
The arguments are sorted by file last-modified time,
youngest to oldest.
File names are resolved first (see the resolve function, below).
Absent files will be sorted to the start of the list.
.H 3 "Example"
This function is often used to "shorten the wait" when building large project,
so that the file you edited most recently is recompiled almost immediately:
.eB
src = [glob *.c];
obj = [sort_newest [fromto %.c %.o [src]]];
.eE
.P
This trick does not always work as expected,
and can take significant time for little result.
.H 3 "See Also"
fromto, glob, sort
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