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Old 12-02-2008
Comparing Time
Hi guys,
Is there a way whereby i can grep the last updated time of a log file and compare it with the server time?

Thanks
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Old 12-02-2008
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...timestamp.html
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Old 12-02-2008
Thanks Ygor, but when i look at the coding, it says "perl" at the starting. Is this a perl script or linux?
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Old 12-02-2008
Hi Ygor, can u show me the code in linux shell script? I need to grep the time of a file and check to see if the file has been stuck for more then 5 minutes
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Old 12-02-2008
Sorry, not stuck, What i meant is I need to have this condition whereby if the file hasn't been updating the past 5 mins, then i'll do something else

Thanks
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Old 12-02-2008
If your linux system has the stat user command -
Code:
now=$(date +%s)
filetime=$( stat -c %Y logfilename )
difference=$(( $now - $filetime))
if [ $difference -gt 300 ] ; then
    echo "logfilename was modified than five minutes ago"
fi

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-02-2008 at 03:28 AM..
 
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