Determining age of a file in shell script

Question

G\'day,

I need to see if a specific file is more than 58 minutes old from a sh shell script. I\'m talking straight vanilla Solaris shell with some POSIX extensions i

Answer 1

You can use different units in the find command, for example:

find . -mtime +0h55m

Will return any files with modified dates older than 55 minutes ago.