change directory date?

[dbarton]

I have a bunch of directories that I want to set the *date* to be the same date as the files in that directory. Any util to do this, especially if it can be automated?

thanks very much

 

[Nothinman]

Which date? Creation date, modification date, metadata change date? On a Linux system you can use the touch command to set any files date to any time you want.

 

[dbarton]

windows..

i want to change the date dispalyed when you do a "dir" so i can sort directries by date the data was created.

 

[Dahak]

dir has an option to list the files by date created oldest to newest. dir /O: D
no space between the : and D otherwise id get a smily


Hope that works for you

 

[dbarton]

No, that has nothing to do with what im after, but thanks

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Dahak
no space between the : and D otherwise id get a smily

Sorry for being off-topic, but use the "do not parse emoticons" option when posting to prevent that.

 

[Jeff7]

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