How to modify the timestamp of files in Linux
Summery :
The “-t” option modifies the time stamp of the file and the format is YYYYMMDDHHMM. The time stamp is changed to current system date and time after touch command is run with ‘-m’ option.
as example if we got a file called tcp.php
executing the command
$ stat tcp.php
result
Access: 2022-7-6 21:58:21 Modify: 2022-7-6 21:58:21
then :
touch -a -m -t 19770707 sec4ever.php
will change timestamp to 07/07/1977 to touch a file with specific time :
$ touch -d "1977-07-07 12:12:12" tcp.php
additionally we can copy other file timestamp by using this command:
touch a.php -r b.php
