Thanks to Peter Gergen, Stan Robinson, Bob Vickers, Harm Ensing, Oisin
McGuiness, alan_at_nabeth.cxo.cpqcorp.net & Jerome M Berkman for their
suggestions
The solution I went with was the simplest:
file1_date=`ls -al file1_full_path |awk '{print $7" "$6" "$8}'`
file2_date=`ls -al file2_full_path |awk '{print $7" "$6" "$8}'`
if [ $file1_date = $file_date2 ]
then
echo "file dates are the same"
else
echo "file dates are not the same"
fi
but I was provided with other solutions in perl & C that uses the stat
system call.
thanks again
> Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Gillon, Ian [mailto:Ian.Gillon_at_TelesensKSCL.com]
Sent: 24/05/2002 09:41
To: Tru64 Unix (E-mail)
Subject: Compare file dates
Hi there,
Does anyone know how I would compare the date/timestamp of two files to see
whether they matched or not?
thanks in advance
> Ian
> Ian Gillon
> Technical Services Group
> T e l e s e n s K S C L
> S h a p i n g t h e f u t u r e o f b i l l i n g
>
>
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