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05-26-2005

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Check if file modified

Hi,
I have a monitoring script that I run, and I would like to automate checking if specific parameter file is modified during the last day or two. How do I do that?

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Here is a very crude script(qualifies well for 'how not to write a script').

Learning phase for me

Hopefully a much better solution would come up.

Code:

#! /bin/sh

FILE=/file/to/check
DoC=echo `stat -c=%y $FILE | awk -F"-" '{ printf $3 }' | cut --delimiter=' '  -f1`

DoM=$((`date +%d` - DoC))

echo "$FILE last modified $DoM days ago"

DoC=date of creation
DoM=Date of modification

Not tested.

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