09-13-2015
Hi Don,
Thank you for the fast reply below are the answers to your questions.
What operating system are you using?
Answer: Debian
What shell are you using?
Answer: Bash
For single digit day of month values, is there a leading space or a leading zero? (I.e., does the code that writes the date stamp use %d or %e to format the day of month?)
Answer: Correct it is a 0 so for example the 9th would be 09.
Is the date & time in the first file always in the 7th semicolon delimited field?
Answer: Correct it is always on the 7th column / semicolon
Is the date & time in the second file always in the 1st semicolon delimited field?
Answer: Correct it is always on the 1st column / semicolon
Are the date & time values in the second file always in increasing time order (as in your sample FILE2 contents)?
Answer: Correct
And, just to be clear, if you find the same date & time in both files, the matching entry in the 2nd file would NOT be selected; is that correct? I.e., you really mean the date & time in the 2nd file must be earlier, not earlier or the same time, than the date & time in the 1st file.
Answer: It would never be the same time on the first file and the time would always be more than the second file as these are comments added after the value in FILE2 are added. Which means if both times are matching FILE1 would take the previous date/time and not the equal one which means it would always be "earlier" pick.
Thanks again Don for all your help I greatly appreciate all your help!
Sincerely,
Roberto
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test - check file types and compare values
SYNOPSIS
test EXPRESSION
test
[ EXPRESSION ]
[ ]
[ OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Exit with the status determined by EXPRESSION.
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output version information and exit
An omitted EXPRESSION defaults to false. Otherwise, EXPRESSION is true or false and sets exit status. It is one of:
( EXPRESSION )
EXPRESSION is true
! EXPRESSION
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the length of STRING is nonzero
STRING equivalent to -n STRING
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the length of STRING is zero
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INTEGER1 is equal to INTEGER2
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INTEGER1 is greater than or equal to INTEGER2
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INTEGER1 is greater than INTEGER2
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INTEGER1 is less than or equal to INTEGER2
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INTEGER1 is less than INTEGER2
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FILE exists and is character special
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FILE exists
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FILE exists and has its sticky bit set
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FILE exists and is a symbolic link (same as -h)
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FILE exists and is a named pipe
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FILE exists and read permission is granted
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FILE exists and has a size greater than zero
-S FILE
FILE exists and is a socket
-t FD file descriptor FD is opened on a terminal
-u FILE
FILE exists and its set-user-ID bit is set
-w FILE
FILE exists and write permission is granted
-x FILE
FILE exists and execute (or search) permission is granted
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