Re: fixing date stamp on files


Subject: Re: fixing date stamp on files
From: Ron Farrer (rbf@toxic.magnesium.net)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 10:02:46 PDT


Paul Slootman (paul@wau.mis.ah.nl) wrote:

> Try something like
>
> find / -mtime -0 -o -mtime +11000 | xargs touch
>
> -mtime -0 will catch all files modified in the future,
> -mtime +11000 will catch all files modified more than 30 years ago.
> Touch will then modify the timestamp to "now".

Thanks Paul, and everyone else who replyed on and off list. I did the above and everything seems to be back
to normal.

Thanks again,

Ron

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