Hi,
This might be the stupidest question ever but here it goes, i need to create a file with the name Hello! It's $s It using the touch command
but whenever i use
touch 'Hello! It's $s'
i get s is undefined
touch Hello! It's $s
i get ' unmatched
Please help ^_^ (6 Replies)
why am i unable to change the timestamp on a file
I'm getting the following error on AIX.
touch: cannot change times
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Ram. (4 Replies)
I have a folder with many subdirectories and i need to set the modified date to today for everything in it. Please help, thanks!
I tried something i found online, find . -print0 | xargs -r0 touch
but I got the error: xargs: illegal option -- r (5 Replies)
So in my shell i execute:
{ while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns.
But
{ while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly.
I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
... (3 Replies)
Is there a way to do...
touch ./config/newdir/newfile
if neither newdir and newfile exists?
man touch tells me there's not (?)
Is out there another tool to do that?
Thx in advance! :b: (6 Replies)
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
Hi all
I changed some of my files in my hoem directory to old dates using the touch command like this
touch -t 200805101024 file name
but after using this command the date changed properly but it displays like below
-rwxr--r-- 1 fincntrg fingrp 193619 May 10 2008 vi.pdf
I... (3 Replies)
I've been given a directory full of subdirectories full of logfiles of the same name:
/logfiles/day1/file1/blockednodes.csv
day1-14
file1-48
The above is the actual directory structure for 14 days worth of a logfile that is generated every 30 minutes. It's been done this way to preserve the... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: Cludgie
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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)