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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: touch (Was Re: -since option for ls -lt)
Summary: Another option to "touch"
Message-ID: <726@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 20:22:15 GMT
References: <344@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <712@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <712@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
> [various talking about times and dates of files]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> NAME
>      touch - update times of last access and  modification  of  a
>      file
> 
> SYSTEM V SYNOPSIS
>      touch [ -c ] [ -a ] [ -m ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] filename ...

Just an unrelated tidbit for you folks who can't remember the format
for the date command in set-the-date mode.  On Sys V, touch's usage
message includes the format for the date: it's the same as date's.
I always use "-x", which is an illegal arg, and it looks like:

	touch: illegal option -- x
	usage: touch [-amc] [mmddhhmm[yy]] file ...

Just for fun...
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