utime() is a system call. Since we are in the shell programming forum, here is an example of the "touch" command. Try these commands:
Here we set the mtime for the file to the last second of the year 2000. This is how we set set the modification time of file to any date/time that we want. But we can't do that to the change time aka ctime.
mtime (modification time) is when the data in the file was last modified. You can set this to whatever you want by using utime(2) or touch(1).
ctime (change time) is when the last change of any happened to the file or the data it contains.
There is also a atime which is when the file was last read. We can set that to any value as well.
Last edited by rbatte1; 08-09-2016 at 05:09 AM..
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