How to change modification time/time created recursively??
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How to change modification time/time created recursively??
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! 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....
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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.
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
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