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NAME

	cooktime - set file times

SYNOPSIS

	cooktime [ option...  ] filename...
	cooktime -Help
	cooktime -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

	The cooktime program is used to set the modified time or access time of a file.  This can be used to defend against unwanted logical
	dependencies when making "minor" changes to files.

	If no option is specified, the default action is as if "-Modify now" was specified.

OPTIONS

	The following options are understood.

	-Access date
		This option may be used to set the last-access time of the files.  The date is relatively free-format; rember to use quotes to
		insulate spaces from the shell.

	-Modify date
		This option may be used to set the last-modify time of the files.  The date is relatively free-format; rember to use quotes to
		insulate spaces from the shell.

	-Time-Stamp-Granularity seconds
		This option may be used to specify the granularity of the filesystem's timestamps, otherwise a default value of 1 second is used.

	-Report
		When use alone, produces a listing of access times and modify times for the named files.  When used with -Access or -Modify,
		produces a listing of the changes made.

	-Help
		Give some information on how to use the cooktime command.

	Any other option will generate a diagnostic error.

	All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the upper case letters, all lower case letters and underscores (_) are
	optional.  You must use consecutive sequences of optional letters.

	All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or lower case or a combination of both, case is not important.

	For example: the arguments "-help", "-HEL" and "-h" are all interpreted to mean the -Help option.  The argument "-hlp" will not be
	understood, because consecutive optional characters were not supplied.

	Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on the command line.

	The GNU long option names are understood.  Since all option names for cooktime are long, this means ignoring the extra leading '-'.  The
	"--option=value" convention is also understood.

EXIT STATUS

	The cooktime command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.  The cooktime command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no
	errors.

COPYRIGHT

	cooktime version 2.33
	Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
	2008, 2009 Peter Miller

	The cooktime program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'cooktime -VERSion License' command.  This is free software
	and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'cooktime -VERSion License' command.

AUTHOR

	Peter Miller   E-Mail:	 pmiller@opensource.org.au
	//*		  WWW:	 http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/

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