The problem is when I run it at command line, it works, but not in the script: # touch --date="Tue Aug 22 08:30:00 CDT 2006" t1 works well. However, the script mystmp: #!/bin/sh newstmp=$1 touch --date=$newstmp t1 and run mystmp as: # ./mystmp "Tue Aug 22 08:30:00 CDT 2006" didn't do what I want, but created: # ls -l total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 08:30:00 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 Aug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 CDT -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 420 Aug 22 10:47 mystmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 22 00:00 t1 What's wrong? Thanks! - H. > man touch > (and for the date, man date) > -B > > Hongwei Li wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to write a script to change a file's timestamp. I have this script >> mytmp: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> cd /tmp/test >> touch t1 >> >> Then, if I run mytmp, file t1 is created with the current timestamp. How to >> change its timestamp in the script after it is created to a specific date >> and >> time? If I want to set the date and time as an argument, e.g. I change the >> script as: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> newstmp=$1 >> cd /tmp/test >> touch t1 >> >> and run it as >> >> # mytmp "Tue Aug 22 08:30:00 CDT 2006" >> >> What should be added in the script to change t1's timestamp to the argument >> provided? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Hongwei Li >> >> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
