Questions tagged [touch]
touch is a command line utility to change file timestamps.
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Script to find multiple files and update their timestamps by a second
I'm trying to create an interactive script that lets me choose a start date and time, then recurse into the present directory/subdirectories, find all flac audio files, sorted by directory/...
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Cannot touch a specific filename, but also cannot remove it [closed]
I'm using a linux terminal on a mounted drive which (according to df -Th ) is of type "cifs"; let's say I'm in directory /dir/. I created a file file_1. Then I deleted it, and now I want to ...
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Fix the bogus modification time of some mkv files based on that of srt files with the same root name
I found around 50 mkv files with modification time in the future (year 2098 and 2097). I see that .srt files with the same name carry the right date and are located in the same subfolder as each mkv ...
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How to automatically set the modification (or creation) time of a Quicktime video file based on its meta data?
In a shell, how to automatically set the modification (or creation) date and time of a Quicktime video file based on the metadata in the file with a single command (or a single command line)? For JPG ...
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touch: /Users/username/.zshrc: No such file or directory
I'm on macOS Ventura 13.2.
Tried to fix python by adding it to .zshrc:
echo "alias python=/usr/bin/python3" >> ~/.zshrc
zsh: no such file or directory: /Users/username/.zshrc
Seems ...
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How to change birth/creation time without copy the whole file?
In Btrfs, stat a file will show birth time, which I try to change but find the method is always about copying the whole file, that would be a time waste, it'd be good to change it like access, modify, ...
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Linux touchscreen - touch indicator
Is there any package that adds a touch indicator similar to what is in windows 10/11. I mean such a gray circle that shows where you touch on the screen.
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`touch` combined with `find -newer` behaves unexpected in script
Goal
I was looking for a simple way to check for new files.
As the target system is a minimal embedded Linux platform,
I cannot just install more packages.
Current Solution
A nice solution seemed to ...
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touch/mkdir seems to ignore default ACL
I am pretty sure it is a stupid mistake but I can't seem to figure it out by myself, so please have a look.
I set up an ACL for the current folder like so:
zigbee2mqtt@nuc:/tmp/folder$ getfacl .
# ...
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Dbus not starting on Ubuntu Touch
systemctl --user start dbus
Failed to start dbus.service: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
See user logs and 'systemctl --user status dbus.service' for details.
systemctl --user ...
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Why am I not able to use * with touch in path? [duplicate]
This is the output of tree:
[xyz@localhost Semester1]$ tree
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├── Eng
├── IT
├── IT_workshop
├── LA
├── OS
├── OS_lab
├── Psy
├── Python
└── Python_lab
9 directories, 0 files
I want to create 3 ...
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How can I obtain the time stamp from a file or directory in touch format?
According to many websites I found online the touch commands' -t argument accepts the time stamp in the following format:
[[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
Here,
CC: The first two digits of the year.
YY: The ...
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Map touch display of the same type with xinput - which is which
on my Linux box I have 2 DELL touch display of the exact same type. One is connected on HDMI-2, the other on DP-1. To map the touch display I use
sudo xinput --map-to-output _ID1_ HDMI-2
sudo xinput -...
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"touch" command with a working "-f" command-line option?
Older versions of the touch command offered a working -f command-line option, which could be used as follows:
touch -f file1 file2
With this command, the modification time of file2 could be set to ...
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How do I create a file named \*\\'"Best School"\'\\*$\?\*\*\*\*\*:) on linux with touch command [closed]
I have had these issues for a while now. I've tried different approaches, all to no avail.
