Unix Question

[Jacob Gore]

>>>> I'll make this short and sweet:
>>>> 
>>>>      How can one change the date/time stamp of a file?
>>>
>>>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
>Don't be so quick to shoot down the original answer.  touch(1) can
>do exactly what you want with no need to mess with inode tables.

It [touch(1)] does have a time parameter on SysV, but not on 4.3BSD.
You are both right...

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University
Computer Science Research Lab
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