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09-28-2008
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comparing timestamp of a file with its touched version
Hi,
I'm new to unix,I wanna know how can I compare timestamp of a file with its touched version.i.e I want to be sure if the touch command has worked properly i.e if the file has been touched then a msg should be printed saying success else failure.All this to be incurred in a script. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance 
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09-28-2008
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If the stat(1) utility is available, then here is an example of one way of doing it
Code:
#!/bin/bash FILE=./testfile # replace with your file stat1=$(stat --printf="%Z" $FILE) touch $FILE stat2=$(stat --printf="%Z" $FILE) if [[ $stat1 = $stat2 ]] then echo "touch failed" else echo "touch succeeded" fi
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09-28-2008
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check for $? after that command e.g Code:
touch filename if [ $? -eq 0 ];then echo "done" else echo "not done" fi
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