Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 10/25/13 11:22

>> I was just expirementing with the diff command and was wondering if
>> there was anything out there that does the same thing but with a more
>> intuitive interface?
>>
>> The problem I want to avoid is a basic one. "Which file did I update
>> last week that I forgot to publish to the live site?"
>>
>> It would be really cool if there was something built on ncurses and not
>> just command line driven.
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, if there aren't any scripts out there I'd like to hear
>> how the list members handle this.
>
> What about just checking the modified times of the two files with
> filemtime()? You could have it grab the timestamp of both files, compare
> them, and see if it's outside a set parameter (like 24 hours, 7 days, etc).

Can't you run into problems where depending on how they get copied from
server to server the modified time gets adjusted? Seems I've run into
that in Windows when FTP'ing. It doesn't preserver that info and treats
all the files as brand spanking new...

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