Re: Testing file age in seconds

From: Netocrat (netocrat_at_dodo.com.au)
Date: 06/13/05

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:37:42 GMT

    Netocrat wrote:

    > I'd like to test whether a file is older than a specified age in seconds
    > from within a bash shell script. It would be acceptable to use another
    > utility such as find or awk but I wouldn't want to rely on something such
    > as perl or python being present.

    I've found the stat command which doesn't seem to be standard and portable
    but is better than a self-made executable. My code is:

    FILETIME=`stat -c %Y $PATHTOFILE`
    NOW=`date +%s`
    if [ $NOW-$FILETIME -gt $AGE ]
    then
    # File is older
    else
    # File is not older
    fi

    Let me know of anything more portable.

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