Can you show us the output from
You could also adjust the timezone value $TZ This will adjust your current session to give you a variation of the clock based on the real time your server holds (actually against GMT / UTC / Zulu depending how you see it)
So if your time zone is:-
You can set it to:-
Then run your date commands to get the values and then reset the original TZ before running touch. You will probably have a different TZ to mine, but add one to the number early on.
Hi,
anybody know how to check the system specification for the unix by using the command like the memory size, cpu's speed and etc.
Thanks. (3 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)
I have a folder with many subdirectories and i need to set the modified date to today for everything in it. Please help, thanks!
I tried something i found online, find . -print0 | xargs -r0 touch
but I got the error: xargs: illegal option -- r (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Can anyone help me to get the server specifications like the following?
eg.
SUN Fire XXX
X UltraSPARC X MHZ
X MB Memory
X GB od hard disk
X On board PCI IO card
X PCI HNI card
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Hi,
I am reciveing files from a remote system on my linux box. These files are named based on time, which I can use to 'touch' the time .
I can access/modify these files using my id. but when I tried touching time using my id I am getting error;
touch -t 1001261234 1001261234_job2333... (15 Replies)
Hi I am working on a program that reads a file with multiple columns and was curious how to specify the columns to be manipulated in the command line.
For example the file may look something like:
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 Column5 Column6
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Hi,
I wish to change time stamp of a directory with all its subdirectories and files on server.
I am able to find following two ways but want to know which will be the better one. I have not tried anyone of them because I am not sure if it can effect my data:
find * -type d -exec touch... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am facing a problem with the command - TOUCH on Linux.
See the example below:
File on Linux: rw-rw-r-- user1 user1 Jan 01 09:00 test.txt
The file - test.txt was created by the user - user1.
Now, I want to change the date and time, but using other user - user2
The user2... (12 Replies)
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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)