UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

All of you are going to hate this. (I'd tell the folks on linuxquestions.org too but the site seems to be down at the moment.)

It turns out "autotouch," along with existing as a script, was a function in my .bash_aliases file. It was the function being invoked instead of the script. The function reads as follows

Code:

function autotouch () {
if [ ! -z "$tdate" ]; then
touch dummy
 touch -t "$tdate" dummy
 echo "The empty file, dummy, is now dated as follows"
 stat -c %y dummy
 touch -r "dummy" "$picc"
 rm dummy
fi
}

And when invoked, the function does not remove 'dummy.' At this point, I'd just like to know why it doesn't.

iaw

I have just tested your function and it works for me.

Double check the following:Also just check that there isn't another autotouch being invoked by typing

Code:

type autotouch

and comparing the output with what you expect.

Andrew

apmcd47: Thank you very much. I saved your sample script as autotouch-b and it works great. I think what I was forgetting to do was use the 'superdate' in my .bash_aliases file, so I wrote a separate script that has that function, then calls the original autotouch script (which passes TDATE to dummy, copies it back to the target file, then deletes it with my nodummy script).

Thanks again, a thousand thanks again.

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