topic Please Help with script in Operating System - HP-UX

Please Help with script

I.Delic — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:32:28 GMT

I want to make a script.

In this script i want to compare two files.

I want to know which file is older.
Let say :

file_1 and file_2

Thank you in advance

Idriz

Re: Please Help with script

Rodney Hills — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:38:48 GMT

Just do-

if [[ file1 -nt file2 ]] ; then
echo file1 is newer then file2
fi

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: Please Help with script

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:38:55 GMT

The POSIX shell makes this very easy:

if [[ file_1 -ot file_2 ]]
then
echo "file_1 is older than file_2"
fi

There is also a -nt comparison (newer than).

Re: Please Help with script

I.Delic — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:43:57 GMT

thank you