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Find the age of a file in Minutes
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Please lt me know how to find the age of a file in minutes(Based on last modified time).
ie, if the file was modified 15 Minutes ago, the output should be 15
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Here is how I would do in ksh:
perl -e 'printf "%d\n" ,(time()-((stat(shift))[9]))/60;' file1.txt

Sorry, but sometimes ksh falls short and you need perl for an assist.
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