Compare the system date with date from a text file
I get the date that's inside a text file and assigned it to a variable. When I grep the date from the file, I get this,
So I only crop out the date, with this command
The result would be
How do I convert this date to the number of seconds, so I can compare it to the system date? If it is over 2 days old.
I have this code but it doesn't work. I'm getting an error message when I ran it. I think its because $dateFile is a text file and it doesn't know how to convert it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by rbatte1; 02-21-2017 at 08:31 AM..
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