thanks, everyone! find -newer should do the trick! :)
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:39, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Eric Jahn wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to get timestamp info on a single directory or file
> > without parsing ls -l output? I'm trying to dynamically choose the
> > backup folder depending on which is older... What would be really cool
> > is an "is older than" comparison. I couldn't find anything in the bash
> > literature except ls -l stuff. Thank you!
>
> Well, there's the '-newer' flag to 'find'; so I guess you could do
> something like:
>
> . /usr/local/lib/untested-code
>
> if [[ -n `find dir1 dir2 -maxdepth 0 -newer dir1` ]] then
> # dir1 is older
> else if [[ -n `find dir1 dir2 -maxdepth 0 -newer dir2` ]] then
> # dir2 is older
> else
> # same age
> fi
>
> ... BICBW. Try on comp.unix.shell .
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