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Started by Genjix January 16, 2005 01:47 PM

4 comments, last by Genjix 19 years, 3 months ago

Genjix

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January 16, 2005 01:47 PM

I have virtually no idea how to do this, and I have spent ages googling (I have tried).


	if [ fexist $1 ]; then
		if [ file_date $1 -gt $someotherfile ]; then
			# ...
		fi
	fi

Thanks.

George2

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January 16, 2005 02:39 PM

Quote:Original post by Genjix
I have virtually no idea how to do this, and I have spent ages googling (I have tried).
 if [ fexist $1 ]; then  if [ file_date $1 -gt $someotherfile ]; then   # ...  fi fi
Thanks.

I might help if you explained what you are trying to do.

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Genjix

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January 16, 2005 02:54 PM

if file exists{	if files date > someotherfile	{		do stuff	}}

sorry, but I don't really know how to phrase it.

Joakim_ar

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January 16, 2005 02:58 PM

If a file is older than another file, perform some actions?

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hpolloni

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January 16, 2005 03:35 PM

you could use the -nt or -ot for conditional expressions, i.e.

#file exist?if [ -f $1 ]; then   if [ $1 -nt somefilename ]; then     #file is newer(based on modification date) than somefilename  fifi

Genjix

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January 16, 2005 05:52 PM

Oh WOW, simply amazing. Thanks :D. Didn't know that kind of stuff would be built into sh.

[Edited by - Genjix on January 16, 2005 6:52:37 PM]

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