Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> T> Why would you need to do that?
>
> I want to do
> $ test file1 -nt filenow
> to see if the mtime of file1 is in the future or not, in a simple
> shell script.
RTFM.
TESTS
Numeric arguments can be specified as
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
n for exactly n.
[...]
-mtime n
File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
^^^^^^^^^
You do the math.
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ilmari