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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Setting Directory Time Post 41895 by jgordon on Thursday 16th of October 2003 04:04:43 PM
Old 10-16-2003
Setting Directory Time
How would I modify the time of a directory? The touch command appears to only work on files and I searched through the threads looking for an example on dealing with directories.

I have a directory that has a recent date, but none of the files within the directory are recent. I'd like to set the directory date/time to be equal to the most recent file date/time within that directory.

A script example would be great so I could recurse through directories, but a manual command would be helpful.
 

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extutils::command

ExtUtils::Command(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				    ExtUtils::Command(3pm)

NAME

       ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.

SYNOPSIS

	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat files... > destination
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mv source... destination
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cp source... destination
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e touch files...
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_f file...
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_rf directories...
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath directories...
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e eqtime source destination
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod mode files...
	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e test_f file

DESCRIPTION

       The module is used to replace common UNIX commands.  In all cases the functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments.  This makes
       them easier to deal with in Makefiles.

	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e some_command some files to work on

       NOT

	 perl -MExtUtils::Command -e 'some_command qw(some files to work on)'

       Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded.

       cat Concatenates all files mentioned on command line to STDOUT.

       eqtime src dst
	   Sets modified time of dst to that of src

       rm_rf files....
	   Removes directories - recursively (even if readonly)

       rm_f files....
	   Removes files (even if readonly)

       touch files ...
	   Makes files exist, with current timestamp

       mv source... destination
	   Moves source to destination.  Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.

       cp source... destination
	   Copies source to destination.  Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.

       chmod mode files...
	   Sets UNIX like permissions 'mode' on all the files.

       mkpath directory...
	   Creates directory, including any parent directories.

       test_f file
	   Tests if a file exists

BUGS

       Should probably be Auto/Self loaded.

SEE ALSO

       ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_Win32

AUTHOR

       Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>.

perl v5.8.0							    2002-06-01						    ExtUtils::Command(3pm)
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