From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-06T23:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Attributing an old time stamp for a new file.

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:

> Hello,
> I need to read some data from some older files and put that info. into
> simple ASCII text files. But, I want those new text files to have the
> same time stamp as the original files that the data came from. Is there
> any way to do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

harp: ~> ri FileUtils.touch
-------------------------------------------------------- FileUtils#touch
      touch(list, options = {})
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Options: noop verbose

      Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of
      file(s) in +list+. Files are created if they don't exist.

        FileUtils.touch 'timestamp'
        FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c');  system 'make'


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