how do I check in bash whether a file was created more than x time ago?

Question

I want to check in linux bash whether a file was created more than x time ago.

let\'s say the file is called text.txt and the time is 2 hours.

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Answer 1

Only for modification time

if test `find "text.txt" -mmin +120`
then
    echo old enough
fi

You can use -cmin for change or -amin for access time. As others pointed I don’t think you can track creation time.

Answer 2

The find one is good but I think you can use anotherway, especially if you need to now how many seconds is the file old

date -d "now - $( stat -c "%Y" $filename ) seconds" +%s

using GNU date