I want to do a global search and replace for all the templates in a website.

I have a php script that displays the date the page was last modified. I want to keep the original dates, but I want to change the name of a few includes.

Is there a way to record all of the file dates, and make my changes, save the files, then restore the provious time stamps?

Thanks

"Is there a way to record all of the file dates, and make my changes, save the files, then restore the provious time stamps?"

You can save the original time stamp, . . ., save the file, and then use the touch command -t option to change the file time stamp back to the original time stamp. See man touch.

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Steve Stites

Thanks,

I know how to use the touch command.

I use it in the following way


So that I can change it down to the second.

I was in a hurry writing the previous question so I wasn't so clear.

What I want to do is find a way to record the last modified time stamp of every file in the website root directory and all of the subsequent directories, then make my changes to the pages, then run the touch command to restore the old last modified times.

I am inserting some new meta tags and changing some includes and I would like to keep the old times.

So is there a way to record all of those time stamps in a file along with the path to the file, then restore all of them with the touch command?

Thanks in advance.