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Old 08-11-2006
"touch" syntax
Why is it that I can not set the time the way I want it even I used the syntax at the man page? Say, I want to change the access time of filex from the current time to another time.
# 2  
Old 08-11-2006
Code:
$ touch ./file
$ ls -l ./file
-rw-r--r--  1 zb  people  0 Aug 11 10:10 ./file
$ touch -t 06061531 ./file
$ ls -l ./file
-rw-r--r--  1 zb  people  0 Jun  6 15:31 ./file

The (minimal) format for -t is MMDDhhmm. There are other additional parts of the timestamp that can be specified - the man page does indicate this.

Cheers
ZB
# 3  
Old 08-19-2006
Sir,

Here is the sypnosis when I look at man page:

touch [-acm] [-r ref file] file ...
touch [-acm] [-t time] file ...
touch [-acm] [date_time] file ...

But when I use them, I can't change the time ...

When I used touch -t, it was not being accepted ...
# 4  
Old 08-19-2006
what os r u using ? linux or sun os aix .. from my understanding in class that some os will accept some command and some other you have add or min an option..
# 5  
Old 08-24-2006
Try this

touch -d <date> <file_name>

Code:
touch -d "Aug 15" xyz.doc

 
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