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On Saturday 22 April 2006 1:41 am, mjd-list-plug2@plover.com wrote:
>
> > from my Camel book....
> > -M Age of file (at startup) in days since modification
> > -A Age of file (at startup) in days since last access
> > -C Age of file (at startup) in days since inode change
> >
> > ?!! in days? That's probably no help.
>
> "In days" is exactly the same as "in seconds", except that the numbers
> are all divided by 86,400.
>
> > To get seconds,
>
> There's nothing magical about seconds. To compare the dates of two
> files, you don't need seconds. You just need to compare them:
>
> if (-M '.y2log' < -M '.y2log-1') {
> print ".y2log is newer than .ylog-1\n";
> } else {
> print ".y2log is olfer than .ylog-1\n";
> }
Ok, thanks. I'll use this. It's really close to being as simple
as it gets. I like simple!
Muchas Gracias,
Eric
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