how do I touch a symlink?

Phil Howard KA9WGN phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Wed May 22 08:54:06 AEST 1991


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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