[ale] Changing date/timestamp on directory

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Fri Dec 27 13:21:53 EST 2002


The command "touch" will do this. Use flag -a to change the access time and -m 
to change the modification time. After either flae, you can specify the time.

On Friday 27 December 2002 01:26 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> How can I change the date and/or timestamp on a directory or file
> manually?  I know that the c based functions for manipulating files and
> directories do this all the time.  Is it possible to issue a command at
> the shell that will make a directory have the modification date and time
> that I want?  I am making CDs and I wish to assign specific dates and
> times to newly created directories to reflect the date that the work was
> done on the files contained within.  The files have the right date and
> time.
>
> I can't use the original directory the files were in since it has an
> older date and time than I want.
> Dow

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