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changing the date/time stamp monk 02-26-2008
Posted by monk on February 26, 2008, 5:02 pm
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 Is there a "perl way" of modifying the date/time stamp of a file? Is
there a core function or core module I'm overlooking?

I guess I'd like to emulate or find the equivalent of the 'touch'
command without using system ('touch...')

# from the shell, modify xfile creation date to year 2001 January day
30 time 13:50:26
touch -t 200101301350.26 xfile


thanks in advance.


Posted by Peter Makholm on February 26, 2008, 5:06 pm
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> Is there a "perl way" of modifying the date/time stamp of a file? Is
> there a core function or core module I'm overlooking?

See the documentation of the utime function in perlfunc.

//Makholm

Posted by monk on February 26, 2008, 5:15 pm
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just what the doctor recommended.

you da man!! thanks.

Posted by Tad J McClellan on February 26, 2008, 8:16 pm
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> Is there a "perl way" of modifying the date/time stamp of a file? Is
> there a core function or core module I'm overlooking?


perldoc -f utime


> # from the shell, modify xfile creation date to year 2001 January day
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 30 time 13:50:26
> touch -t 200101301350.26 xfile


touch does NOT modify the creation date, because there is no
such thing on most *nix filesystems...


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Tad McClellan
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