* On 27/12/06 10:54 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: | In the last episode (Dec 27), Odhiambo Washington said: | > I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on | > FreeBSD. | > | > The following code achieves the same on Linux: | > | > # AGE = (current time) - (time of last modification of "$FILE") | > # please check your systems 'stat' command! | > AGE=$(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c '%Y' "$FILE"))) | > | > test $AGE -lt $DELAY && { | > echo -n yes | > exit 0 | > } | | You can use "stat -f '%m' $FILE", which is identical to Linux's | "stat -c '%Y' $FILE" .
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