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/