Chnge timestamp of a file

rahulrathod · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

How to change the timestamp of a file to a previous date?

Regards,
Rahul.

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

You did not mention which OS. Assuming Linux.

Code:

[/tmp]$ touch file
[/tmp]$ ls -l file
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxxxxx g900            0 Jan  4 05:33 file
[/tmp]$ touch -d "Dec 1 2005" file
[/tmp]$ ls -l file
-rw-r--r--    1 xxxxxxxx g900            0 Dec  1 00:00 file
[/tmp]$

matrixmadhan · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

in solaris,

Code:

touch -am [MMDDhhmm[yy]] <filename>

rahulrathod · #4 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006

Thanks guys.

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