How to change modification time/time created recursively??

Drigo · 07-01-2009, 05:23 PM

Hello,
I know there exists a touch command to change the date of the files. However, I want to change the files of a directory and the directory time. Is there a command that can help me with this?? like -R Can you please provide me an example of the command?

Thank you,
Drigo

harry edwards · 07-01-2009, 05:26 PM

Something like:

Code:

find /path/to/files -exec touch -t 200906122350 {} \;

Drigo · 07-01-2009, 10:35 PM

Thank you! It worked. I wantt o have the current time so I ommitted the -t command. What does {} \; mean? I guess the find will find the files in the path..... and with exec, we execute the command touch....

alpha01 · 07-01-2009, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drigo

Thank you! It worked. I wantt o have the current time so I ommitted the -t command. What does {} \; mean? I guess the find will find the files in the path..... and with exec, we execute the command touch....

If you include the -exec parameter to the find command. {} \; tells to execute the following command on what ever it finds.

afkhan · 08-05-2009, 07:45 AM

Hi,

I am trying to do a touch on some file in the a heirarchy but the timestamp for the directory where the file exist doesnot change. Even this is not getting propogated to the parents till the root.

this is what i am using currently

#!/bin/sh
for i in "ls"
do find . -name "m2.cmb" -exec touch {} \;
done

Any help is greatly appreciated.....

Regards