Re: what file's mtime is the current time?

[Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃker]

Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

RTFM. 

   TESTS
       Numeric arguments can be specified as

       +n     for greater than n,

       -n     for less than n,
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       n      for exactly n.

   [...]

       -mtime n
              File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^


You do the math.

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ilmari