touch madness

Dimitar Vassilev dimitar.vassilev at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 15:11:34 UTC 2009


2009/12/30 Brad Mettee <bmettee at pchotshots.com>

> 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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thanks to all - tried with inserting measure units hours minutes and so on
1st time.
Without them it works


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