touch?

[ronnie gauthier]

Thanks. Guess I'll just sort them.

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:38:58 -0500
kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:52:51AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote:
>> I need to modify folder creation dates. I looked through man and info
>on> "touch" and dont see folders mentioned.  I am creating links using
>> readdir(perl) and not relying on any sorting so folders are output in
>> crono order. I made the original set in a-z order so display is a-z.
>any> additions are obviously out of order and it is just one folder so
>> modifying it would be easier than adding a sort routine to the
>script,> as easy as that would also be.
>
>In the first place, they are directories (or, more precisely, directory
>files), not folders. That said, touch will modify the timestamp on
>directories but doesn't, as far as I can tell, create the directory
>if it doesn't already exist.
>
>Kurt
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