From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 25 12:29:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B25837B40C for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 41115 invoked by uid 100); 25 Aug 2001 19:29:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15239.64646.793829.507587@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:29:10 -0500 To: "Eric Lam" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to reset timestamp of a file/directory... In-Reply-To: <125178599@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Lam types: > Hello, long story. I just realized my time/date for > my computer is like 1988, because i pulled the > battery. anyways, is there a way to mass (recurse) > change the timestamp of all my files direcetories? > pretty annoying seeing all my files 1988. > find . | xargs touch That may well screw up things that depend on the date relationship between files. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message