'touch' as one year old timestamped file

[nathnp]

Anybody knows how to change the timestamp of a file for previous year.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The manpages are an incredible source of information. For example to change the modification timestamp of a file to one year ago today, you could do:

# touch -mt 200808231246 /tmp/foo

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/touch.1.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jestin John Chacko]

Dear,

use touch command it will change only the timestamp

[Steven Schweda]

> The manpages are an incredible source of
> information.

Ineresting. I usually find them to be the
exact opposite: a credible source of
information.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

A generalized solution could be accommodated with Perl:

# perl -e '$now=time;utime $now,$now-(60*60*24*365),@ARGV' /tmp/foo /tmp/bar

Pass one or more file names as arguments as shown. The modification ('mtime') of each argument will be changed to one year prior.

@ Steven: Yes, you got me :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Lijeesh N G_1]

Hi,

#touch -mt

Foe eg.

# ll /testfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Aug 23 2009 /testfile <<==It is Aug 23 2009


#touch -mt 200808232045 /testfile <<==Changing the modified time stamp to Aug 23 2008, 10:45 PM(One year Old)


# ll /testfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Aug 23 2008 /testfile <<==Now its Aug 23,2008

Check MAN page for more details,
#man touch


Regards,
LIJEESH N G