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From: bill@voodoo.UUCP (Bill Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix Question
Message-ID: <197@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 11:30:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 13 11:30:43 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 01:51:56 EST
References: <249@sjuvax.UUCP> <808@mtund.UUCP> <4287@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@voodoo.UUCP (Bill Sears)
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In article <4287@umcp-cs.UUCP> steve@umcp-cs.UUCP (Steve D. 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.  There are three

I don't know if it's standard or not, but at least one version of touch
that I've used allowed the user to enter a time/date on the command line
to touch onto the file.  For example:

    touch 8603241425 filename.c == 2:25 pm  march 24, 1986
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	Bill Sears			....uw-beaver!ssc-vax!voodoo!bill

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