How to "touch" a entire folder?

mariusak · 05-31-2005, 07:35 AM

Hi!

I would like to modify the Modified date of an entire folder, meaning all of it's files and all the files in it's subfolders..

For this i guess I have to use the touch command. Example:

touch -mt CCYYMMDDhhmm FILENAME

How can I do this recursively? with for instance chmod you can use -R if i remeber correctly..

-Thanks for your help

visaris · 05-31-2005, 08:15 AM

Loop up the "find" command and the -exec option in particular. You can use find to find all files in a directory recursively, and use the -exec option to execute a command on each one of those files.
"man find" should tell you everything you need to know.

mariusak · 05-31-2005, 08:24 AM

thanks!