How can two dates be compared in a shell?

Asked Mar 08 '17 at 19:47

Active Mar 08 '17 at 21:34

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Here is an example of how I would like to use this, though it does not work as-is. i would like to use this specific timestamp only.

todate=2017-03-08T19:41:26Z
cond=2017-01-19T19:35:07.000Z
daysdiff=$($todate - $cond)
if [ $daysdiff -gt 5 ];
then
    break
fi

How can I achieve the desired result?

edited Mar 08 '17 at 21:34

John Rotenstein

asked Mar 08 '17 at 19:47

Dhaval Babu

2

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24626/quickly-calculate-date-differences – hookenz Mar 08 '17 at 19:50
Lots of details. Do you have GNU date? Which shell? (Do you have bash extensions?) – Charles Duffy Mar 08 '17 at 21:38
...one of the answers in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29310990/compare-two-dates-in-shell-script is entirely applicable, *if* you have GNU date. – Charles Duffy Mar 08 '17 at 21:39

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