[Linux-disciples] Changing the datestamp on a file

[Ken Shan]

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On 2003-10-07T00:16:31-0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I have a bunch of files named yyyy-mm-dd (year, month, day), created at
> various points over my blog's lifetime. I've edited those files over
> time, so the datestamps have changed; in some cases I've used sed to
> create entirely new files, so the creation date changed.
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> So now I'd like to change the creation-date (or last-modified-date) stamp
> on all my files; if they're named yyyy-mm-dd, I'd like their date stamp
> to say that they were created on that date. Is such a thing possible?

Yes; check out the touch command or the utime function in Perl.

(By the way, what you called "creation date" is usually called
"modification date" or "mtime".)

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