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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can we change the file created date? Post 302585985 by pandeesh on Thursday 29th of December 2011 11:58:06 PM
Old 12-30-2011
Can we change the file created date?

Hi,

I am creating a file in unix today.
Is it possible to make the file created as 2 days older (or some past date)?
P.S:
i dont want to change the system date to older one and try.Smilie

Thanks,
Pandeeswaran
 

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mhc(1)							      General Commands Manual							    mhc(1)

NAME
today - Show your today's schedules. SYNOPSIS
today [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the today commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. today is a program that show your schedules in MHC repository. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. -h, --help Show summary of options. --format=FORMAT change output format. FORMAT is 'html' or 'ps. --category=CATEGORY Pick only in CATEGORY. '!' and space separated multiple values are allowed. --date=strig[+n] Set a period of date. String is one of these: today, tomorrow, sun ... sat, yyyymmdd, yyyymm. yyyymm lists all days in the month. list n+1 days of schedules if +n is given. default value is 'today+0' --mail=ADDRESS Send a e-mail to ADDRESS instead of listing to stdout SEE ALSO
adb2mhc(1), gemcal(1), mhc-scan(1), mhc2palm(1), palm2mhc(1), mhc(5). AUTHOR
This program was written by Yoshinari Nomura <nom@quickhack.net> and this manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 23 Jun 2000 mhc(1)
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