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NAME

        cooktime - set file times

SYNOPSIS

        cooktime [ option...  ] filename...
        cooktime -Help
        cooktime -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

        The cooktime program is used to set the modified time or access time
        of a file.  This can be used to defend against unwanted logical
        dependencies when making "minor" changes to files.

        If no option is specified, the default action is as if "-Modify now"
        was specified.

OPTIONS

        The following options are understood.

        -Access date
                This option may be used to set the last-access time of the
                files.  The date is relatively free-format; rember to use
                quotes to insulate spaces from the shell.

        -Modify date
                This option may be used to set the last-modify time of the
                files.  The date is relatively free-format; rember to use
                quotes to insulate spaces from the shell.

        -Time-Stamp-Granularity seconds
                This option may be used to specify the granularity of the
                filesystem’s timestamps, otherwise a default value of 1 second
                is used.

        -Report
                When use alone, produces a listing of access times and modify
                times for the named files.  When used with -Access or -Modify,
                produces a listing of the changes made.

        -Help
                Give some information on how to use the cooktime command.

        Any other option will generate a diagnostic error.

        All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the
        upper case letters, all lower case letters and underscores (_) are
        optional.  You must use consecutive sequences of optional letters.

        All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or
        lower case or a combination of both, case is not important.

        For example: the arguments "-help", "-HEL" and "-h" are all
        interpreted to mean the -Help option.  The argument "-hlp" will not be
        understood, because consecutive optional characters were not supplied.

        Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on
        the command line.

        The GNU long option names are understood.  Since all option names for
        cooktime are long, this means ignoring the extra leading ’-’.  The
        "--option=value" convention is also understood.

EXIT STATUS

        The cooktime command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.  The
        cooktime command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no
        errors.

COPYRIGHT

        cooktime version 2.33
        Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
        1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
        2008, 2009 Peter Miller

        The cooktime program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
        use the ’cooktime -VERSion License’ command.  This is free software
        and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for
        details use the ’cooktime -VERSion License’ command.

AUTHOR

        Peter Miller   E-Mail:   pmiller@opensource.org.au
        /\/\*             WWW:   http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/