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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File existence and increment Post 302441986 by skles on Tuesday 3rd of August 2010 04:38:18 AM
Old 08-03-2010
You can touch .filename (it's name same as file name in the file_list) when you find the date change ,so
if you find filename older than .filename ,so ,it has changed.
Code:
if [ file1 -ot file2 ]

we can just think .filename is a timestamp file...
 

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ASN2ASN(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual							ASN2ASN(1)

NAME

       asn2asn - convert NCBI data between text and binary ASN.1

SYNOPSIS

       asn2asn [-] [-b] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s] [-x]

DESCRIPTION

       asn2asn converts data in NCBI's ASN.1 format between binary and text subformats, or to isomorphic XML.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -      Print usage message

       -b     Input asnfile in binary mode

       -e     Input is a Seq-entry

       -i filename
	      Read input from filename rather than stdin

       -l filename
	      Log errors to filename

       -o filename
	      Write output to filename rather than stdout

       -s     Output asnfile in binary mode

       -x     Output XML instead of ASN.1

AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       asn2ff(1), asn2gb(1), asn2xml(1), asndhuff(1)

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