need to compare timestamps
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Apr 6 16:11:58 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:47 +0000, rado wrote:
> hi!
>
> 2 machines
> set up ssh passwordless
> need to be in a script
> /tmp/<file> on both machines
>
> I need to compare the timestamps and get the newest
>
> thx
>
> John Rose
>
>
>
John,
filetime1=`stat --format=%Y $FILENAME1`
filetime2=`ssh hostname stat --format=%Y $FILENAME2`
if [ $filetime1 -gt $filetime2 ]
do something if filetime1 > filetime2
fi
--format=%Y gets the last modification time.
Bob...
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