A little off topic...laptop date.
On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel (Nigel_Sale@adc.com) wrote:
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> Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to,
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> I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 years in the future.
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> Does anybody know how i can first find all these files ? I'm sure i should be able to use the find comand but can't find the right options,
> And secondly, any way to subract 20 yeats from a files creation date ?
To find them, you could set your system date to 1 day after that
future date and user find / -mtime -1 -print.
You can use touch to set the file time to be whatever you want.
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Neil L. Roeth
neil-at-occamsrazor.net
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