I don't accept this as an aswer :-)
My question was about arbitrarily changing the ctime of a file, or larger
set of files. Down to the second, to the integer in the file stat structure.
Like with touch with a time argument, or -r referenceFile.
Like with touch and the -a or -m arguments -- I was asking for a -c argument!
To achive that manually by changing the system time sounds like playing a
video game, hit-and-miss. Plus other files may get stampd unintentionally
during that period, and log entries may be created.
- Horst
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:39:43 -0800
From: Alan <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]>
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] ls script help
Mike Cherba wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 00:17 -0800, Alan wrote:
Which apparently doesn't change the ctime on linux.
Yup. Which is why you change the system time. Ccime is maintained by
the system for good reasons.
I know I have used a *nix in the past 10 years in which touch could change
the ctime. A bastardized version of SCO, maybe?
It's now going to bug me until I figure it out.
-ajb
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