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Old 05-31-2005
How to find the File Age and wait for that...
Hi,
I want to know my file is 1 hr 30 min old or not,
If 1 hr 30 min old I will do some tasks in that file.. other wise I will wait to 1 hr 30 min and then do the tasks.. how to do it in Unix script? any idea?
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Old 05-31-2005
... this one uses touch to compare for file modification time ... experiment with it and you'll get the answer to your question ... (see "man touch") ...
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Old 06-01-2005
You could also check out this posting
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/19013-check-if-file-modified.html

Use it as a starting reference.

Vino
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Old 06-01-2005
How about this ?

Code:
#! /bin/sh

ToM=`stat -c=%Y webtogo.cpp | awk -F"=" '{ printf $NF }'`
[ $(( `date +%s` - $ToM )) -gt 1800 ] && echo " File is older than 90 min"

ToM is Time of Modification

Vino
 
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