sreangsu acharyya forced the electrons to say:
> is there anyway by which one can compare 2 date strings as returned by
> "date" in bash.
You can ask date to print output in a comparable format; like
if [ $( date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S' ) -gt 20001226000000 ]; then
echo 'Oops! Forgot all about Christmas presents'
fi
See date(1) for details.
Binand
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