03-14-2012
Help with touch and timestamps
Hello fellow Unix geeks,
I have been given a very urgent assignment in my office on writing a particular Shell script but I'm very much new to it.I would appreciate any help from you on solving this problem--which might seem very trivial to you.
The Unix flavour is a Sun Solaris one..(not sure).
Basically --the problem is--there are a certain number of files in a certain directory.A script has to be written which will 'touch' all the files within that directory giving those file the current timestamp.However,the trick is that ,the files shouldn't be touched all at once..There has to be a certain gap-say 5 or 7 seconds,between each file.
Please help.
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DESCRIPTION
This is a mv(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not
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Expand asterisk in src to be used as ""%"n" (where n is 1,2,...) in dst-file. This is useful for renaming multiple files at once.
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