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Re: [Help-bash] bash native way to support test file is older than a cer


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] bash native way to support test file is older than a certain period of time
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:06:57 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> The other alternative is to use find:
> 
>     if [ -n "$( find "$myfile" -mmin +60 -print)" ]; then
>         echo file was modified more than 60 minutes ago
>     fi
> 
> (where "$myfile" is some path to a file)
> 
> 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.



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