newer of two files

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Silly question, I think:

    I have two files, $file1 and $file2. I want to say

        if($file1 is newer than $file2) {
            do something
        }

I'm sort of embarrassed by this question, but the point is just that I
kind of recall there being a one-line way of doing this with file
tests or something, and I'm not finding it.

I know how to do it with two explicit stat calls and then comparing
mtime's.

-- 
 Jeff

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