If the output is under your control, you can have date emit
easily-comparable dates. Something like:
date +%Y%M%D%h%m%s
should do the trick (man date).
No Perl this time, even though I was tempted :)
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "sreangsu" == sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sreangsu> Hi, is there anyway by which one can compare 2 date
sreangsu> strings as returned by "date" in bash.
sreangsu> I can ofcourse parse it with something like
sreangsu> "^(???) (???) ([1-9]*) (([1-9]*:)*)([1-9]*) .* [1-9]*$"
sreangsu> Thu Dec 28 17:19:35 IST 2000
sreangsu> and then compare the year month and day. But I am
sreangsu> looking for a simpler solution ( i.e without parsing )
sreangsu> thanks in advance sreangsu
sreangsu> p.s. No Perl please ;) --
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Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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