Hi

In a script I have on a FreeBSD machine

[ $FILEA -nt $FILEB ] checks to see if FILEA is newer than FILEB

however on an SCO machine there isn't a -nt option.
Can anyone please tell me of an equivalent I can use?

Many thanks

Tony

both bash and ksh support -nt when comparing files, what shell are you using?

This is the script

#!/bin/sh

MONITORED_FILE=/root/temp

TEMP_FILE=/root/temp.1

[ ! -f $TEMP_FILE ] && touch -r $MONITORED_FILE $TEMP_FILE

if [ $MONITORED_FILE -nt $TEMP_FILE ]
then
ftp -i -n <<EOF
o 10.48.83.201
user ##### #######
cd vendor/cisco
put $MONITORED_FILE temp.txt
bye
EOF
fi

touch -r $MONITORED_FILE $TEMP_FILE

when run on SCO i get

# ./ftpscript
UX:test (./ftpscript): ERROR: -nt: Unknown operator
#

Looking on the man page doesn't show an -nt operator so now i'm stuck.
Any help or another way of doing the same thing would be of great help
thanks

If you have ksh, change the first line of the script.

Brilliant thanks