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

A piece of the puzzle might be using stat. You can pass -r or -s to get a parseable representation of all file metadata.

find . -print -exec stat -r '{}' \;

AFAICR, the 10th column will show the mtime.