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amw> My question is this. I am tryning to compare the age of two
amw> files to see if I am going to copy it over to my release
amw> directory or not. If it is newer, then it gets copied over. The
amw> ideal tool to accomplish this would be to use the Korn shell test
amw> f1 -nt f2.
It seems to me that the ideal tool to accomplish this would be make
itself; that's exactly the kind of test make was created for.
amw> Doing you know how to prooerly invoke Korn shell within a
amw> makefile so I can use that command. If not, there something
amw> similar that I could use?
You can set the SHELL make variable in your Makefile to be any program
you like, as long as it obeys Bourne shell invocation syntax--Korn shell
obviously qualifies.
See the GNU make manual for info on SHELL.
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