topic Re: file date verses current date in Operating System - HP-UX

file date verses current date

Peter Lyons_1 — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:55:36 GMT

I haven't done many (hardly any) scripts and am getting frustrated with what should be an easy one. Can some of you more experienced script writes tell me what I'm doing wrong? What I am doing is trying to compare a file date with the current date.

#!/usr/bin/sh
CMDATE= date +'%b'
CDDATE= date +'%e'
FMDATE= ls -l TUXLOG.061002 | cut -c 46-48
FDDATE= ls -l TUXLOG.061002 | cut -c 50-52
print "Month: "$CMDATE "Day: "$CDDATE
print "Month: "$FMDATE "Day: "$FDDATE
if [[ "$CMDATE" -eq "$FMDATE" ]]
then
if [[ "$CDDATE" -eq "$FDDATE" ]]
then
print "They match"
else
print "Check Date"
fi
else
print "Check Date"
fi
exit

Re: file date verses current date

John Meissner — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:04:48 GMT

d=$(date | awk '{print $2,$3}')
file=filename
d2=$(ls -la $:file | awk '{print $6,$7}')
if [ "$d" = "$d2" ]
then
echo "they match"
elif [ "$d" != "$d2" ]
then
echo "Check date"
fi

Re: file date verses current date

John Meissner — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:08:59 GMT

you'll have to excuse my fat fingers.....
d2=$(ls -la $:file | awk '{print $6,$7}')

should read d2=$(ls -la $file | awk '{print $6,$7}')

I put a : in accidently

Re: file date verses current date

Peter Lyons_1 — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:19:32 GMT

Thanks that did the trick!

Re: file date verses current date

John Meissner — Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:22:17 GMT

great - I'm glad to hear that. I started scripting about a year ago - just a little after I started using Unix/Linux.
If you're frustrated I can recomment 2 books that have helped me tremendously:

Korn Shell Programming
by O'Brien, Pitts
and
sed & awk
O'Reilly