any ways to change the 'modified' date on files without actually editing them?

[Maximus96]

question as titled. thanks for any help

 

[Nothinman]

touch <filename>.

 

[Maximus96]

doesn't work. changed the filename and the modified date didn't change.

 

[Nothinman]

Works fine here.

$ ls -l 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 username groupname 1733 Dec 12 14:41 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
$ touch 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
$ ls -l 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 username groupname 1733 Dec 17 13:43 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff

 

[Maximus96]

ah sorry, i'm using windows xp.

 

[Nothinman]

Also on my windows install i have cygwin which has the touch command, sorry.

 

[Maximus96]

what is cygwin? maybe i can install it and do it that way

nevermind, googled it. will give it a try. thanks