Hi,

Is it possible to amend a file without changing the last modified date?

If it is, how do you do it?

If it's not, is there a way to create an empty file with the same timestamp as another file?

I know you can use touch -t yyyymmddhhmm.ss filename but, I would want the file to have the exact same timestamp as another file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

****EDIT****
Sorry, I forgot to mention. I'm trying to script using bash.

You will use touch option -r (reference file) with will create a file with exact same timestamp as file you referenced to.

Check man touch

Thanks very much, Peasant.

I looked through the man page for touch and must've missed it.

Thanks!

Actually:

touch -r file1 file2...

touch -m -r file1 file2...

Thanks Don.

I realised what Peasant meant with his post and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for the info on touch -m though.