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Old 08-26-2008
Compare date of file and directory

I need to compare the changedate of a file and a directory in a shellscript. If the changedate of the directory is the same or newer than the file, I will execute a certain command. If not, I have to wait a second and then compare the dates again. Is this possible?

Thanks.
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Old 08-26-2008
this will give the change date of the file in a dir..
ls -lrt|tail -1|awk '{printf $6" "$7}'
similarly take the change date of dir and compare it..
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Old 08-26-2008
the gnudate command can give you that info about files.
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