Comments on: Shell Script Nuggets: File Date Manipulation And Checking http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/ Get a grip! Fri, 18 May 2012 02:43:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Stoney http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-35614 Tue, 29 May 2007 13:56:05 +0000 http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-35614 ctime is not really the creation time of the file. It is the creation time of the inode of the file or when the inode was last changed. But otherwise a good post. -S ctime is not really the creation time of the file. It is the creation time of the inode of the file or when the inode was last changed.

But otherwise a good post.

-S

]]> by: gbyeow http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2440 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:48:06 +0000 http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2440 It is not part of the default Windows utilities. Do what Simon-says'. It is not part of the default Windows utilities. Do what Simon-says’.

]]> by: Simonsays http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2425 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:24:30 +0000 http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2425 WL: I guess for Windows one could look at the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true" rel="nofollow">Windows XP command-line reference</a>, but I doubt that an equivalent of <code>touch</code> is there. I like supplementing the bare-bones NT command line with <a href="http://www.cygwin.com" rel="nofollow">Cygwin</a> because all the Linux bash coreutils commands are accessible after adding the <em>/bin</em> directory to the User Account environment variables. Hmmm, for those of you who don't know what we're talking about... download Cygwin/Knopppix Live CD and give it a go! WL: I guess for Windows one could look at the Windows XP command-line reference, but I doubt that an equivalent of touch is there. I like supplementing the bare-bones NT command line with Cygwin because all the Linux bash coreutils commands are accessible after adding the /bin directory to the User Account environment variables.

Hmmm, for those of you who don’t know what we’re talking about… download Cygwin/Knopppix Live CD and give it a go!

]]> by: WL http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2422 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:35:11 +0000 http://www.boredworkers.com/2006/06/28/shell-script-nuggets-file-date-manipulation-and-checking/#comment-2422 Windows don't have similar utilities? Windows don’t have similar utilities?

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