G> If you realy, realy, realy need to do this /proc/self would be much G> better since you don't have rights for the inits proc entry in a G> chroot.
But that is not "now": $ stat -c %y /proc/self /proc/1;LC_ALL=C date 2003-08-18 06:10:52.000000000 +0800 2003-08-18 06:21:24.000000000 +0800 Mon Aug 18 06:21:24 GMT-8 2003 P.S. won't be using chroot. T> Why would you need to do that? I want to do $ test file1 -nt filenow to see if the mtime of file1 is in the future or not, in a simple shell script.

