[ale] file modification time via shell script

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:43 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> > I'v got an electronic voting machine that I need some help hacking on..
> > NOT!  (but I did get your attention...)  ;-)
> >
> > Here's what I am trying to do however:  I need to run a script (via
> > cron) that first determines if a log file changed since the last time
> > the script ran before it does further processing.  Ideas?
> >
> 
> >From the top of my head,  (ie. no testing even of syntax)
> 
> WORK=`find <logfile> -newer /usr/local/share/my-flag-file -print`
> 
> touch /usr/local/share/my-flag-file
> 
> if [ $WORK == "" ]
>     exit
> 
> real work
> 
> 
> Greg

Cool, thanks Greg!

-Jim P.