[Gllug] Pipe question

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:22 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> How can I do this?
[ snip ]
> To check whether a file has been rebuilt.

Surely the classic way to do this is to create a timestamp file before
doing the rebuild, and using the file tests built into find (-newer),
bash (-nt), perl, and others.

eg
~$ touch timestamp
~$ make
~$ # take a break...
~$ cat list_of_files_to_check | \
> | perl -ne \
> 'chomp; print "$_\n" if (-M $_ > -M "timestamp")'

regards,
Tom Weissmann



		
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