Re: What is the best way to touch a file and set its time of the last time of a bunch of other files?

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Peng Yu <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi, `touch -r` allows one to set the time of a file same as a
>> reference file. What if one wants to set the time to be the last time
>> of multiple files? Is there an easy way to do so?
>
> $ touch -d @$(stat -c %s $files | sort -n | tail -n1) $file
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Andreas.

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