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Re: What is the best way to touch a file and set its time of the last ti


From: Stephane Chazelas
Subject: Re: What is the best way to touch a file and set its time of the last time of a bunch of other files?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:56:49 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

2015-08-07 02:21:07 -0500, Peng Yu:
> Hi, `touch -r` allows one to set the time of a file same as a
> reference file. What if one wants to set the time to be the last time
> of multiple files? Is there an easy way to do so?
[...]

With zsh,

touch -r /path/to/*(om[1]) file

Would set file's time to that of the newest non-hidden file in
/path/to.

-- 
Stephane




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