tag 17937 notabug close 17937 stop On 07/04/2014 11:18 AM, sepero...@gmx.com wrote: > Most of the time I love Linux CLI, but rare occasions like this s*** makes me > want to throw my computer through the wall! > > From the touch manpage. > > -d, --date=STRING > parse STRING and use it instead of current time > > > > ~$ touch -d="now" file > touch: invalid date format ‘=now’ > ~$ touch -d="$(date)" file > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 06:05:22 EDT 2014’ > ~$ touch -d="$(date -R)" file > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:05:30 -0400’ > ~$ touch -d="$(date -u)" file > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 10:05:33 UTC 2014’ > > > Is it possible that touch could get an update to support the common output > provided by the gnu version of `date`?
They'll mostly work if you remove the '='
