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- retouch is a command that can be used to "correct" last changed
- dates, such as when by 'make' or 'ls -l -t'. These dates
- can be inaccurate after a cp, or uucp, or kermit to create a new
- copy of an existing file, or to import it from another system.
-
- retouch looks for an sccs string of the form
- @(#) anything at all mm/dd/yy
- @(#) anything at all yy/mm/dd
- to get the date. It is intended for use on source files, and
- assumes there is no such string if it's not in the top 10 lines.
-
- It has the following options:
- -v verbose
- -g assume the date is GMT rather than local time
- -d date set the last change date to "date".
-
- It has defs for BSD and USG, although it's been tested only
- under BSD. It was intended as a one-time hack, and may not
- be as clean as it should be, but it has proven versatile and
- necessary over the past 6 months.
-
- I'd appreciate any suggestions or changes.
-
- Joel West CACI, Inc. Federal, La Jolla
- {cbosgd, ihnp4, sdcsvax, ucla-cs} !gould9!joel
- joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPA
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