From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T22:53:08+09:00
Subject: Re: stamping my own timestamp

2007/7/16, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> > 2007/7/16, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com>:
> >> Is there a way to "touch" a file with a time stamp of my own choosing,
> >> in other words, not the "now" time? I've got a bunch of files that have
> >> been inadvertently "touched" time-wise, and I need them to have truer
> >> time stamps, from a month or so ago.
> >
> > http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/FileUtils.html#M004385
> >
> > e.g. FileUtils.touch("foo", :mtime => Time.now)
> >
> > robert
>
> Thanks. But, this is what I get when I try that. Doesn't the "Time.now"
> give it the time of right now?
>
> irb(main):003:0> FileUtils.touch(file, :mtime => Time.now)
> ArgumentError: no such option: mtime
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/FileUtils.rb:1424:in
> `fu_check_options'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/FileUtils.rb:1009:in `touch'
>         from (irb):3

Works for me:

irb(main):003:0> FileUtils.touch "f", :mtime => Time.now
=> ["f"]
irb(main):004:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"
irb(main):005:0> File.mtime "f"
=> Mon Jul 16 15:52:06 +0200 2007

Alternatively you can try to use File.utime().

Kind regards

robert

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