From 4f922202b048529215b70025b2fd13058ebff049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Day Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:43:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] touch: add -d example (#7274) --- pages/common/touch.md | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/common/touch.md b/pages/common/touch.md index 5f828fae5..9ba7657d7 100644 --- a/pages/common/touch.md +++ b/pages/common/touch.md @@ -5,16 +5,20 @@ - Create a new empty file(s) or change the times for existing file(s) to current time: -`touch {{filename}}` +`touch {{path/to/file}}` - Set the times on a file to a specific date and time: -`touch -t {{YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS}} {{filename}}` +`touch -t {{YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS}} {{path/to/file}}` + +- Set the time on a file to one hour in the past: + +`touch -d "{{-1 hour}}" {{path/to/file}}` - Use the times from a file to set the times on a second file: -`touch -r {{filename}} {{filename2}}` +`touch -r {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}` - Create multiple files: -`touch {{file{1,2,3}.txt}}` +`touch {{path/to/file{1,2,3}.txt}}`