YoYo Siska schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>What I would like is a way to change the date of specific files to a >>specific date (in the past), without "changing" (editing) them, which is >>not an option with the original Morrowind files (or, if it is possible, >>it's only so with additional external tools and a whole lot of difficulty). >> >>Is this even possible to do? Now that I've said it "out loud", it >>doesn't sound like something Linux would want me to do at all, but >>perhaps there's some reason that server admins might need to do such a >>thing, in which case Linux definitely provides a way to do it. >> > > > > if you just want to change the (modification/acces) time of a file: > > man touch > > see the -t or -d option > (-r can be handy too) > > > yoyo
Thank you both very much... one small step further towards cli guruhood (I've heard of touch, but that's about all I could say about it, until now). FWIW, the problem actually was that the file dates were too recent; as soon as I copied over the same-original-but-older-timestamp files to the game directory (because I did that before you guys told me about touch) and fired up the game, all of a sudden, the new textures from the plugin(s) were visible (overriding the original as they were supposed to). So I'm happy to know that there's a much easier way to do it, while I wait to see if anyone has more help on the liflg forums than what I've got so far :-) . Thanks again. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
