Bug 260871
| Summary: | [patch] touch(1) enhancement | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie> | ||||
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed Feedback Timeout | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | jamie | ||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | patch | ||||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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*tumbleweed* Over 2 years. Obviously no interest. closed. |
Created attachment 230614 [details] patch to add "-R" to touch(1) I'm not quite sure how you deal with "non-standard" additions to standard commands, so please be gentle! Incidentally, I have no preference for actual implementation, this is just what I've been using for a while. Comments welcome! Basically, touch(1) has: -h If the file is a symbolic link, change the times of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. and: -r Use the access and modifications times from the specified file instead of the current time of day. If "-r" points to a link, the link is always followed to retrieve the datetime information. I have a program that needs to "-r" the datetime of the link itself if the file is a link. Up to now, I've been doing a stat of the file, and then forming the date to add, but recently thought to add this option: -R As -r , but if the file is a symbolic link, return the times of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. Patch attached. Comments?