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Re: touch - cannot use options "backward"


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: touch - cannot use options "backward"
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:27:58 -0700
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> > Using a combination of GNU 'date' and GNU 'touch' this is easy.
> >
> >   touch --date "$(date --date '1 hour ago')" /tmp/foo
> 
> This is equivalent to
> 
>      touch --date '1 hour ago' ...
> 

Yes!  I messed that one up largely.  (shakes head and looks sheepish)
But fortunately Phil got it right:

Philip Rowlands wrote:

> touch -d "$(date -d "$(date -r foo) 1 hour ago")" foo

Thanks
Bob




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