I'm getting to grips with this concept of the umask.
What I thought was, setting umask uga+rwx would result in creating files with all permissions for everyone. Seems not to be the case though. Read and write bits get set, but not the execute bit.
Is there some gap in my understanding, or is... (2 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)
I am interested in creating a new file from a KSH script where the first line is printed. I know how to create the file, but creating with a pre-defined first line is what I need help with.
My code below creates the file, but how do I accomplish that and do it so that when I open that txt file... (5 Replies)
All, I am looking to make a script and wanted to see if anyone could help out.
The script will go through the directory, put a timestamp, transfer it and then create a touch $file.done script
HEre is my initial idea, but I don't think it will work properly. Anyone able to help me refine it... (11 Replies)
Hi all,
Need advice from expect, below is my scripts to find the file not use and touch in storage and other directory.
This scripts divide by:
1. 30 days
2. 90 days
3. 180 days
4. 1 years
5. 3 years
6. 5 years
Then count total size in GB from 6 each category.
Sample my... (5 Replies)
Afternoon,
the stat command is used against a file to ascertain date created and last modification time. However a different individual if they so chose could use the touch command to alter the date created or modification time.
Is there anyway to protect against this ?
thanks
Steve (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to create a trigger file named "start" at 4 pm daily . Once this file is created , another process would be initiated. How do i do it using touch command in unix ?
My script that should have touch command shall be present in a dir /app/user/script while the trigger file should be... (2 Replies)
Hello Team,
Is there any Linux command / script available so that, I could create a simple 0 byte file in destination server by issuing the command from source server.
If yes, Could you please let me know the possible solutions.
in other words I just want to create a touch file in my home... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
touch
TOUCH(3) 1 TOUCH(3)touch - Sets access and modification time of fileSYNOPSIS
bool touch (string $filename, [int $time = time()], [int $atime])
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to set the access and modification times of the file named in the $filename parameter to the value given in $time. Note that the
access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters.
If the file does not exist, it will be created.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- The name of the file being touched.
o $time
- The touch time. If $time is not supplied, the current system time is used.
o $atime
- If present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of $atime. Otherwise, it is set to the value passed to the
$time parameter. If neither are present, the current system time is used.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | It became possible to change the modification |
| | time of a directory under Windows. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
touch(3) example
<?php
if (touch($filename)) {
echo $filename . ' modification time has been changed to present time';
} else {
echo 'Sorry, could not change modification time of ' . $filename;
}
?>
Example #2
touch(3) using the $time parameter
<?php
// This is the touch time, we'll set it to one hour in the past.
$time = time() - 3600;
// Touch the file
if (!touch('some_file.txt', $time)) {
echo 'Whoops, something went wrong...';
} else {
echo 'Touched file with success';
}
?>
NOTES
Note
Note that time resolution may differ from one file system to another.
Warning
Prior to PHP 5.3.0 it was not possible to change the modification time of a directory with this function under Windows.
PHP Documentation Group TOUCH(3)