UNIX RT
Category 20,  Topic 5
Message 83        Sat Nov 28, 1992
MIKE.NOLAN                   at 16:28 EST
 
'touch *' should update the timestamp on all files in the directory. If you
would like to do so on all files in subdirectories as well, something like
'find . -exec touch {} \;' should suffice.  (The find command is incredibly
powerful and underutilized, IMO.)
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C.COUGAR [Cougar]            at 00:18 EST
 
find underutilized?!?  I can't go a day at work without my friend find. :) 
(And you should see my root crontab -- loaded with 'find' commands.)

And of course, if you want to change the date/timestamp of selected files, you
can use:

find . -ok touch {} \;


Lex