On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:26:03PM +0530, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> is there anyway by which one can compare 2 date strings as returned by
> "date" in bash.
Here's an example:
a=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; sleep 5; b=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`;
if test $a -lt $b; then echo "OK"; else echo "Not OK"; fi
HTH
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