On Tuesday 14 August 2007 17:54, - Tong - wrote: > How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? > > In my script I have > > touch -r "$file1" "$file2" > > the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. > > The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g., -test.file1/2. > > I.e., anyway to make the following touch command works? > > $ touch -r "-test.file1" "-test.file2" > touch: invalid date format `est.file2' > > FYI, I tried this but didn't work: > > $ touch -r -- "-test.file1" "-test.file2" > touch: invalid date format `est.file1' > > I think if the touch command uses the standard gnu getopt lib, then > the above code should work, shouldn't it?
If file1 is to provide the reference timestamp via the -r argument, try: touch -r "$file1" -- "$file2" --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
