> touch changes the mtime or optionally atime
> not ctime.
According to the manpage, touch changes "the access and modification
times of each FILE to the current time". Or optionally (with -a),
"-a change only the access time".
Funnily enough though, when I run touch, it seems to update the ctime
too.
[kor at hoth kor]$ touch newfile
[kor at hoth kor]$ stat newfile|grep '\(Access\|Modify\|Change\)'
Access: Tue Feb 12 13:54:05 2002(00000.00:00:13)
Modify: Tue Feb 12 13:54:05 2002(00000.00:00:13)
Change: Tue Feb 12 13:54:05 2002(00000.00:00:13)
[kor at hoth kor]$ touch newfile
[kor at hoth kor]$ stat newfile|grep '\(Access\|Modify\|Change\)'
Access: Tue Feb 12 13:54:21 2002(00000.00:00:01)
Modify: Tue Feb 12 13:54:21 2002(00000.00:00:01)
Change: Tue Feb 12 13:54:21 2002(00000.00:00:01)
[kor at hoth kor]$ touch -a newfile
[kor at hoth kor]$ stat newfile|grep '\(Access\|Modify\|Change\)'
Access: Tue Feb 12 13:54:52 2002(00000.00:00:05)
Modify: Tue Feb 12 13:54:35 2002(00000.00:00:22)
Change: Tue Feb 12 13:54:52 2002(00000.00:00:05)
[kor at hoth kor]$ touch -a newfile
[kor at hoth kor]$ touch --version
touch (GNU fileutils) 4.0
Not running any funny mount options here neither. Odd.
-kev
On Pungenday, the 43rd day of Chaos, Padraig Brady roared:
> Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> >Here is what I did:
> >
> >(I created the folder and 3 files. )
> >
> >macarthy at Shaftoe /c/testfiles
> >
> >$ ls -la
> >total 34
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 macarthy None 0 Feb 12 12:37 .
> >drwxr-xr-x 62 macarthy None 28672 Feb 12 12:36 ..
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 macarthy None 1393 Feb 12 12:36 test1.txt
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 macarthy None 1393 Feb 12 12:37 test2.txt
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 macarthy None 1393 Feb 12 12:37 test3.txt
> >
> >
> >(Touched the test1.txt )
> >
> >macarthy at Shaftoe /c/testfiles
> >$ touch -t 02111200 test1.txt
>>> Padraig
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