Re^4: Which feed method?

Thanks RonW, -M actually serve my purpose if I only going to get modification time in days.

The stat yes will give actual modification time in seconds. I have tested it out. However, on my script start/execution, I still need get current time() and make compare to file modification time so I can get "x time ago". Perhaps I misunderstand of stat where there are better way to achieve my goal.

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Re^5: Which feed method? by RonW (Parson) on May 10, 2016 at 17:19 UTC
Both methods will give you a number related to when the file was modified. With `-M`, any time your script was restarted, any saved modification time would be relative to an old reference: the previous run of your script. Unless you also saved the last start time of your script, you would have to make an assumption about the "newness" of the file. With stat, the reference is always the epoch, so your saved modification time will always be valid, no matter when your script last ran nor how many times it was restarted.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Which feed method?
by RonW (Parson) on May 10, 2016 at 17:19 UTC

Both methods will give you a number related to when the file was modified.

With -M, any time your script was restarted, any saved modification time would be relative to an old reference: the previous run of your script. Unless you also saved the last start time of your script, you would have to make an assumption about the "newness" of the file.

With stat, the reference is always the epoch, so your saved modification time will always be valid, no matter when your script last ran nor how many times it was restarted.

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