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bug#17937: Getting gnu touch and gnu date to play nicely


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Subject: bug#17937: Getting gnu touch and gnu date to play nicely
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:18:35 -0400
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Most of the time I love Linux CLI, but rare occasions like this s*** makes me want to throw my computer through the wall!

From the touch manpage.

-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time



~$ touch -d="now" file
touch: invalid date format ‘=now’
~$ touch -d="$(date)" file
touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 06:05:22 EDT 2014’
~$ touch -d="$(date -R)" file
touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:05:30 -0400’
~$ touch -d="$(date -u)" file
touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 10:05:33 UTC 2014’


Is it possible that touch could get an update to support the common output provided by the gnu version of `date`?






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