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From: adam@mtund.UUCP (Adam V. Reed)
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Subject: Re: Re: Unix Question
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Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 22:18:23 EST
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Steve Miller Writes:
> In article <808@mtund.UUCP> adam@mtund.UUCP (Adam V. Reed) writes:
> >> I'll make this short and sweet:
> >> 
> >>      How can one change the date/time stamp of a file?
> >> 
> >>      I want to be able to put any date/time on a file that I
> >>      have in my directory...
> >> Chuck Conway
> >
> >See touch(1) in the User Reference Manual (RTFM!).
> 
>    The original poster does not want to put the *current* time on
> the file...he wants to put *any* time on the file.

RTFM, and I mean it:
TOUCH(1)                  UNIX System V                  TOUCH(1)
NAME
  touch - update access and modification times of a file
SYNOPSIS
  touch [ -amc ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] files
DESCRIPTION
  Touch causes the access and modification times of each
  argument to be updated.  The file name is created if it does
  not exist.  If no time is specified (see date(1)) the
  current time is used.  The -a and -m options cause touch to
  update only the access or modification times respectively
  (default is -am).  The -c option silently prevents touch
  from creating the file if it did not previously exist.
  The return code from touch is the number of files for which
  the times could not be successfully modified (including
  files that did not exist and were not created).
SEE ALSO
  date(1).
  utime(2) in the UNIX System Programmer Reference Manual.

And yes, I tested it with an arbitrary date. It works.
					Adam Reed (mtund!adam)