Dear expert,
what is this command touch -c filename using for?
I find if execute and filename is existed, it update the date to now.
If the filename is not exeisted, it don't create the file..
so what is this command using for?
Thank a lot! (1 Reply)
hello everyone i am new to this forum and was wondering if you all could help me out.... i am looking for a touch command that can touch directories as well as files that does not involve sygwin... any and all help would be appreiciated :D (3 Replies)
If touch command sets the modification and access times of files to the current time of day, is there a command that could do the reverse of this? Say change the access times of files to an earlier time or date?
Say I have this file:
HOME> ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 orbix orbix 886 May... (1 Reply)
Hi,
This might be the stupidest question ever but here it goes, i need to create a file with the name Hello! It's $s It using the touch command
but whenever i use
touch 'Hello! It's $s'
i get s is undefined
touch Hello! It's $s
i get ' unmatched
Please help ^_^ (6 Replies)
Is there a way to do...
touch ./config/newdir/newfile
if neither newdir and newfile exists?
man touch tells me there's not (?)
Is out there another tool to do that?
Thx in advance! :b: (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a touch command in my script which creates / updates a file TODAY. Then i try to find the list of files which are newer than this TODAY file.
touch `date '+%m%d'`0000 TODAY
cd /auto/users-35/p494856/learning/filetransfer/
find . -name "*csv" -newer... (3 Replies)
Hi all
I changed some of my files in my hoem directory to old dates using the touch command like this
touch -t 200805101024 file name
but after using this command the date changed properly but it displays like below
-rwxr--r-- 1 fincntrg fingrp 193619 May 10 2008 vi.pdf
I... (3 Replies)
hi ,
I am transferring files from one unix server to another, after transfer of a file i want to touch the same file name in another directory in the destination server.
How can i touch a file when i am in ftp prompt on the source server.
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to use touch command to create 1200 .txt files. I am using this, but it is not working.
touch `seq 1 1200`.txt
Regards,
Siddhesh.K (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Siddheshk
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bntext
bntext(5) File Formats Manual bntext(5)NAME
bnmotd.txt, bnnews.txt bnissue.txt - messages for the Unix Battle.net daemon
DESCRIPTION
The file bnmotd.txt contains text displayed by bnetd(1), when users first log into the server.
The file bnnews.txt contains text displayed when the user uses the /news chat command.
The files consist of raw text with printf-style formatting escapes. Each line of a file can contain a type formatter from the following
list:
%B Use the broadcast attribute (???).
%C Execute the line as if the user entered it as a command.
%E Use the error attribute (red).
%I Use the info attribute (yellow). This is the same was %W.
%M Normal chat message (white). This will appear as if the user said it.
%T Emote chat message (???). This will appear as if the user said it.
%W Use the warning attribute (yellow). This is the same was %I.
Within a line, any of the following format formatters may be used:
%% Expand to a literal percent sign (%).
%a Expand to the number of accounts on the server.
%c Expand to the number of channels on the server. This includes all permanent and current temporary channels.
%g Expand to the number of games on the server. This includes both public and private (passworded) games.
%h Expand to the hostname of the server (as returned by gethostname(2)).
%i Expand to this user's account ID number, formatted with a leading pound (#) sign and leading zeros.
%l Expand to this user's current chat name which is usually the same
%r Expand to the IP of the remote machine (the client).
%t Expand to four character client tag.
%u Expand to the number of users logged into the server.
%v Expand to the version number of the server.
SEE ALSO bnetd(1)AUTHOR
Ross Combs (ross@bnetd.org)
2 August, 2001 bntext(5)