[Linux-disciples] Re: Changing the datestamp on a file

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:16:31AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, that's easy:

touch -d '[filename]' [filename]

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