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

Since you're looking to test the time of a specific file you can start by using test and comparing it to your specially created file:

test /path/to/file -nt /var/tmp/toto

or:

touch -t YYYYMMDDHHmm.SS /var/tmp/toto
if [/path/to/file -nt /var/tmp/toto]
   ...