Try touch `ls -1` On 15 Oct 2016, at 19:33, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I thought at first, too. But touch begs to differ: > > $ ls -1 | sort | touch > usage: > touch [-A [-][[hh]mm]SS] [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file > ... > > -Carl > > >> On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> Right off the bat, I think you made a mistake in putting the * at the end of >> the command. The whole idea of piping the output from LS is to input it to >> touch, and you just provided touch with another argument first. I think if >> you just let LS do its job and don't provide touch any arguments, you will >> get what you want, including all of the necessary requoting. >> >>> On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:24 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to arrange the files in a directory to have modification dates >>> according to alphabetical sort order. (Sounds weird, but Alpine car units >>> use modification date as the ordering of music tracks on a USB stick.) >>> >>> In bash I'm using: >>> >>> ls -1 | sort | touch * >>> >>> ...but it doesn't work, there is no change in the modification date of the >>> files. I'm guessing the problem is that the filenames have spaces, so the >>> 'touch *' is only touching the first word of the filename. >>> >>> Is there a way to do this? >>> >>> -Carl >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk David P Henderson c: 757.286.3212 -- "Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing." -- Akira Kurosawa _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
