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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Help with touch: bad time specification Post 302835943 by N1a_Raider on Tuesday 23rd of July 2013 09:59:06 AM
Old 07-23-2013
Oracle Help with touch: bad time specification

Here is the part of the script: I have modified the file name.Smilie

Code:
SSFILE=${My_HOME_DIR}/log/my_file_ss.log
export MM=`date '+%m'`
export DD=`date '+%d'`
export HH=`date '+%H'`
export MIN=`date '+%M'`
export HOURAGO=`echo ${HH} -1 |bc `
echo $HOURAGO
export TTIME=${MM}${DD}${HOURAGO}00
echo $TTIME
touch -t ${TTIME} ${SSFILE}
export MIN=`date '+%M'`
export HOURAGO=`echo ${HH} -1 |bc `
echo $HOURAGO
export TTIME=${MM}${DD}${HOURAGO}00
echo $TTIME
touch -t ${TTIME} ${SSFILE}

I get this message in error log file: touch: bad time specification
I have solaris 10 and this is .ksh file.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this commands?

Last edited by Scott; 07-23-2013 at 11:20 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME
touch - change file access and modification times SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file... DESCRIPTION
touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist. OPTIONS
-a Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified. -c Do not create file if it does not exist. -f Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file. -m Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes). EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made. >0 An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5) SunOS 5.10 26 Oct 1995 touch(1B)
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