On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:54:51AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
> I hate asking questions about what I thought was going to be
> a simple operation but I cannot find an easy way to compare
> timestamps of two files. I felt certain that I sould be
> able to do this without awking the ls -l outputs but maybe
> not? What I want to do is after wget runs, if a particular
> file's timestamp is newer that the old one I eed to notify
> someone via mail. The mail part I can do. It is timestamp
> stuff that is escaping me.
the 'find' command has a -cnewer option that you might find useful.
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