Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Gurus,

I want to check if file got created in less than 10 hrs in .ksh.
Here is my requirement

In $var5 : I'm storing file name
In $var4 I have stored : select to_char(sysdate,'YYYYMMDDHH:MM:SS') from dual;

If that file date time is less than 10 hrs, then I need to check

Code:

if [ -f /data1/proj/srcfile/$var5.txt$var4 ] less than 10 hrs
then
echo $var5$var4

Thanks,
Srinivas

Do you insist on ksh (which would surprise me as your var4 is being filled from SQL, which certainly is an overkill at this point) ?

Two pointers into sort of solutions:
- Calculate your 10h back time from SQL as well; assign to another var.
- use the shell's builtin printf with the %(%s)T format specifier to get the actual system time (not sure if that works in ksh; it does in bash), subtract 36000 and use that for time comparisons.