Today is 28 July 2016, below command will change the access time and modification time of file hello.txt to 21 July 2016 13:00 hrs
There is no creation time, therefore it cannot be changed :-)
I m not looking for a static but a dynamic solution.
The date should change one week prior for any given file on any given day.
I have to capture the creation date and time stamp for a file. The ls command doesn't list all the required information. I need year, month, day, hour, minute and second.
Any ideas... (1 Reply)
I am trying to insert a line with a date stamp in a file that is used to monitor activity in one of our directories. By doing this, I want to grep that file each day and go to the last entry for each time a error occurred and pull all errors generated if any exist. If error exists I want that error... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Plz suggest me how can i change the date of a file.
Suppose my file has been created in some date and i want to give it present date.
How can i do this???? (2 Replies)
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)
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
When i do ls -ltr <file1> then it shows me the date and time of the file
if - for whatever reason file has future date/time stamp then ls -ltr is not showing the time, it just shows only date part ... even if time is ahead by 2 hr than current time.
suppose a file was copied from INDIA... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use "touch -t xxxxxxxx" command to set date/time stamp of a file. My requirement is to read the date/time stamp of a file and apply it to another file.
Is there anyway to do it simple instead of manually taking date/stamp of first file?
TIA
Prvn (2 Replies)
Hi!
Please see our current script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
if (egrep "This string is found in the log" /a01/bpm.log)
then
mailx -s "Error from log" me@email.com, him@email.com </a01/bpm.log
fi
To the above existing script, we need to add the following change:
1) After finding the string,... (7 Replies)
hi,
i have a Archive directory in which files are archived or stored with date and time stamp to prevent over writing.
example:
there are 5 files
s1.txt
s2.txt
s3.txt
s4.txt
s5.txt
while moving these files to archive directory, date and time stamp is added.
of format `date... (9 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to add a new column 'current_time stamp' in my existing csv file with current time stamp for all the records.I tried something this but this is printing 0 with date & time and printed date one line above header.Please help
awk -F "," 'BEGIN{ OFS="," } {$6=system("date... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: netdbaind
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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.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-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
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -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.
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
Report touch bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 coreutils 'touch invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 TOUCH(1)