how to compare file modification time in bourne shell script
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Fri Jul 27 07:01:49 AEST 1990
In article <Jul90.102745.21330 at x.co.uk>,
mike at x.co.uk (Mike Moore) writes:
)...
) newer() {
) file=$1
) set `ls -t $1 $2` # func args are now changed
) [ $file = $1 ] && return 0 || return 1
) }
Equivalently:
newer() {
file=$1
set `ls -t $1 $2` # func args are now changed
[ $file = $1 ]
}
Sic!
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