The "find" version is preferable because it uses less system resources to execute and is IMHO a lot easier to read and maintain.
Note that "touch" will create a file if it isn't already there, therefore your version will not only update existing files ".gitkeep", but also create one in every directory if it ins't already there. If you only want to touch already existing files you will want to change your "find" command:
"touch" will only change the content of the i-node of a file (the modification timestamp), but not change the contents of the file itself.
can we change the timestamp of a file to old date.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 330 Jul 1 16:03 abc.txt
it shows creation time is 16.03 can i change it to previous time
:) (2 Replies)
i want to find the files which are modified in last 30 to 120 minutes
i am using "find . -mmin +30 -mmin -120 "
it is giving me the error
find: bad option -mmin
find: path-list predicate-list
can somebody help me out .
Thank you (5 Replies)
Hi,
As i know , we can change the time stamp of a file by touch command, i did change in a file and it is looking as given
# ls -l abcd
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers 0 Feb 17 2010 abcd
actually i want to see the output like this
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers ... (3 Replies)
hi everyone
i am facing a strange problem here
suppose content of my file is
a=1,2,3
b=2,3,4
c=4,5,6
time=
now the problem is i want to add value in front of time variable
and the value should be i format only "HHMMSS"
so it should be like this
a=1,2,3
b=2,3,4
c=4,5,6... (3 Replies)
Here is two time I have:
Jul 12 16:02:01
Jul 13 01:02:01
and how can I do a simple match to get difference between two time which is 09:00:00
Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to convert normal time stamp to unix time stamp to a filename.
coz our ssytem will pick depends on unix timestamp format .
the filenames are as shown below fie names are stored in file say temp.txt.
MLFG2_cDomHTTPstats_SAB15-1_1318482447.dat... (2 Replies)
On Solaris 10 server the system date won't match with the timestamp on files created by a cron jobs, Please help
here is what i get when i check for system date
infodba-ie10ux014:/tcpdv1_ie10/tcadmin/bin\n\r-> date
Tue Apr 24 15:27:43 GMT 2012at same time i executed a cron job, and checked... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am listing the files which are 4 hours older. For this first I have creted a dummy file with the 4 hours before timestamp, then I am using the below find command,
find /path/ -type f ! -newer 4_hours_oledr_file -exec ls -lrt {} \;
I am getting the files which are older than... (13 Replies)
I am creating log monitoring script and stuck up to get the logs between two time stamp.
can you please help me to create the script to get the logs between two time stamp, for example, I need the complete logs between # Time: 150328 1:30:10 and # Time: 150328 19:10:57
OS : Cent OS 6.x... (8 Replies)
I have a file hello.txt which was created today (today's date timestamp)
I wish to change its date timestamp (access, modified, created) to 1 week old i.e one week from now.
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4v sparc sun4v
Can you please suggest a easy way to do that ? (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-B, --backward=SECONDS
Modify the time by going back SECONDS seconds. For example, touch -r foo -B 5 bar will make the file bar 5 seconds older than file
foo.
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-F, --forward=SECONDS
Modify the time by going forward SECONDS seconds. For example, touch -r foo -F 5 bar will make the file bar 5 seconds newer than
file foo.
-f (ignored)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a) modify mtime (same as -m)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info touch
should give you access to the complete manual.
touch (coreutils) 4.5.3 October 2002 TOUCH(1)