Please Help with script

[I.Delic]

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

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

Just do-

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

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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).

[I.Delic]

thank you