Re: Please help: syntax for touch needed

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kai> I've looked at GNU/Linux (Debian woody), FreeBSD (-current) and
    Kai> Solaris (2.6) and it seems that they all allow me to say

    Kai>     touch -t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss /path/to/file

    Kai> How can you help?  If you have access to a different Unix, please
    Kai> tell me if the above command also works there.  

Mac OS X 10.2.8 and Solaris 2.8 support the above syntax.  They also support

    touch -r /path/to/reference/file /path/to/file

which says to get the timestamp from the reference file.  That might be
useful to get the timestamp from the most recent backup file.

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