lvc@danews.ATT.COM (Larry Cipriani) (11/16/86)
> Steve- READ YOUR UNIX MANUAL!!!! Mine states under TOUCH(1) ... causes the > access and modification times of each argument to be updated. IF NO TIME IS > SPECIFIED THE CURRENT TIME IS USED. You can specify the time you want it > touched > to. This is exactly what the original poster wanted. > > touch [ -amc] [mmddhhmm[yy] ] files > > This give you month date hour minute and year, what more could you want?!? > > Norm Tiedemann > ihnp4!ihlpa!normt > AT&T Bell Labs I would like to be able to say: touch -fdatefile files The files are touched with the 'dates' of the datefile. This is in CB/UNIX (yet another AT&T version of UNIX) and I sure wish it was in System 5 Release 2. It can be very useful in makefiles. Larry Cipriani cbsck!lvc AT&T Network Systems
decot@hpisoa1.HP.COM (Dave Decot) (11/19/86)
> I would like to be able to say: > > touch -fdatefile files > > The files are touched with the 'dates' of the datefile. This is > in CB/UNIX (yet another AT&T version of UNIX) and I sure wish it > was in System 5 Release 2. It can be very useful in makefiles. > > Larry Cipriani I remember a program called "sametimes" somewhere which would do this. Dave Decot hpda!decot