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1. Detecting a new or updated file

I have a script that checks a list of user home directories for a
particular file (public_html/index.html) being newer than a time stamp
file's date.

These are the relavant commands:

  NEW=`find $HOMEDIR/public_html -name index.html -newer $STAMP -print`
  if [ "$NEW" ]; then
    ...
  fi

Problem is, the find command is wandering off into subdirectories, and
sometimes gets its fingers rapped when permissions deny access, like
this:

  find: cannot chdir to /home/theo/public_html/toprint: Permission denied

I would like to avoid the unwanted wanderings of find, and the error
messages.

Is there a way to perform the time stamp comparison, either by
restricting find (I have tried other find options, but no success),
or another tool?

I would rather not use perl, as it would require my installing it on
a number of machines at different sites.

Thanks for any help.

Glenn

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