Re: A little off topic...laptop date.
On Nov 8, Steve Dobson (steve@dobson.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:32:37AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
> > On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel (Nigel_Sale@adc.com) wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
>
> On the other hand if you now have your system time set correctly and
> you don't want to change is use find's -cnewer option.
>
> # touch /tmp/file_now
> # find / -cnewer /tmp/file_now
>
> will list them and
>
> # touch /tmp/file_now
> # find / -cnewer /tmp/file_now | xargs touch
>
> will reset the date.
>
> Steve
Yup, that's better. Didn't think of it.
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Neil L. Roeth
neil-at-occamsrazor.net
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