touch madness

[Brad Mettee]

Based on the man page for touch, it doesn't use the d/m/s flags.

Your line should be

touch -A -000430 filename.here

Which would be subtract 0 hours, 4 minutes and 30 seconds from current 
time of the file. I created test file, checked time of it, subtracted N 
minutes to make it even to the hour and it worked as described.

Dimitar Vassilev wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to find the match for touch -d now-5minutes+30seconds under
> freebsd.
> Got a munin plugin that i'd like to change without installing the emulator
> port.
> I have touch -A, however when i pass touch -A -00d04m30s i don't get
> anything as a file.
> Can someone give the exact syntax if possible.
> Thanks and all the best.
> Dimitar
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