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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how do I touch a symlink?
Message-ID: <1991May21.225406.22979@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 22:54:06 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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When touching a symlink, the touching process affects the targeted file.
I'd like to update the date on the symlink itself.  Is there a way to do
this in a shell script w/o writing a C program?
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