Re: [foxboro] Date comparison in Unix scripts

At 12:42 PM 4/19/02 -0400, you wrote:

>Specifically, I am trying to manage some system PM items.  I would like to
>be able to check a list (flat file) of tasks and determine if the task is
>overdue.  I would also like to determine when the task is more than X days
>overdue to flag it as a high priority.  The second part requires the ability
>to compare the stored date with the current date to see how many days in the
>past it is.
Check out the date utilities at ftp://metronet.com/milam/  This is a shell 
utility that can compare dates  (in various formats) to the current 
time.  You might have to compile it.

or learn Perl.

Winston Jenks
Technical Director, Cape Software, Inc.

 
 
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