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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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Old 10-16-2003
This works for me.

# mkdir filedir

# touch -t 12012300 filedir


changes the time stamp to Dec 3 2003 and 2300pm for time.
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Old 10-17-2003
Thanks. I attempted the same thing using my login id and it came back with the message that "xxx is a directory", but when I logged as root it worked fine.
 
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