Answer by serverhorror for Bash: Retrieving and comparing two dates
I'd simply compare on number of seconds since the epoch ls -lt --time-style="+%s". That gives you a nice number you can compare on. From man bash arg1 OP arg2 OP is one of -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, or...
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/bin/date can convert time to formats, including seconds from epoch. DATE_1="`svn info svn://server.com/reponame -r 'HEAD' | grep 'Last Changed Date' | grep -E -o \"[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\...
View ArticleAnswer by Philip Reynolds for Bash: Retrieving and comparing two dates
## Specify the filename to dump here _filename = svn.dump ## Grab the mtime of the file and print out in "seconds since Epoch format" _fileepoch=$(find ${_filename} -printf "%Ts") ## Grab the last...
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In Bash script, I would like to compare two dates and if one is greater than the other, carry out a task. Two dates that I'm comparing are: svn repo's last change date, I get the date info like so:...
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