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Re: [Help-bash] bash native way to support test file is older than a cer
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] bash native way to support test file is older than a certain period of time |
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Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:06:57 -0400 |
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On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> The other alternative is to use find:
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> if [ -n "$( find "$myfile" -mmin +60 -print)" ]; then
> echo file was modified more than 60 minutes ago
> fi
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> (where "$myfile" is some path to a file)
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> There's nothing "bash native" about that though, but it would be
> portable.
Portable to any system with GNU find, you mean (the -mmin test isn't
standard). It also assumes the filename is not just one or more newline
characters, but that might be getting a little bit too pedantic.