Re: Touch?


Subject: Re: Touch?
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 19:14:29 MDT


david bonde's bits of Sun, 3 Sep 2000 translated to:

>I try to change modification and creation date of MyFile with touch:
>
>touch -am -t 07221347 MyFile
>
>But I only receive:
>
>usage: touch [-amcf] file ...
>
>
>Have I misunderstood something?

Any idea what version of touch you are using? With CS 1.2, the version
shows up as touch (GNU fileutils) 4.0p and the command you show above
works just fine. If you are using an older version, you might want to try
something like...

touch -am 07221347 MyFile

That is, just drop the -t

Jim



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