Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-27 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jan 2010, at 20:12, Kyle Bader wrote: This is rather blunt but... Find / -name *|xargs touch I am pleased to award you, on behalf of the gentoo-users mailing list, a golden prize for this year's most redundant use of wildcards in a command line. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much from memory this time.) Now when I try to set the system time to local and the hardware clock to Pacific time and

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 January 2010 18:05:14 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much from memory this time.) Now when I try to set the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Kyle Bader
This is rather blunt but... Find / -name *|xargs touch On 1/25/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 18:05:14 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set date/time/timezone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 25 January 2010 22:12:05 Kyle Bader wrote: This is rather blunt but... Find / -name *|xargs touch This might work better: find / -mtime -0 | xargs touch I *think* that will find everything with an mtime less than 0 (i.e. in the future). untested, it might eat kittens, ymmv, test

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 18:05:14 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 18:05:14 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways