Re: Please help: syntax for touch needed

[Michael Albinus]

Skip Montanaro <address@hidden> writes:

>     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.

Both the -t and -r options work the same way fro HP-UX.

Best regards, Michael.