Re: [gentoo-user] [OT, game-related,long] Changing file dates?

[YoYo Siska <yoyko@mailbox.sk>]

Holly Bostick wrote:
> What I would like is a way to change the date of specific files to a
> specific date (in the past), without "changing" (editing) them, which is
> not an option with the original Morrowind files (or, if it is possible,
> it's only so with additional external tools and a whole lot of difficulty).
> 
> Is this even possible to do? Now that I've said it "out loud", it
> doesn't sound like something Linux would want me to do at all, but
> perhaps there's some reason that server admins might need to do such a
> thing, in which case Linux definitely provides a way to do it.
> 


if you just want to change the (modification/acces) time of a file:

man touch

see the -t or -d option
(-r can be handy too)


yoyo
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