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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | Re: touch - cannot use options "backward" |
Date: | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:27:58 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
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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