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Explore Stack Internal I have a bunch of files in a directory where the modification time was changed (incorrectly) with touch -m
The access time of these files is still close enough to what the modification time was, so I'd like to change them back.
Is there a way of doing a touch where it sets the mtime = atime? I don't want to set them all to the same timestamp, but I want to go file-by-file setting mtime = atime...
I have a bunch of files in a directory where the modification time was changed (incorrectly) with touch -m
The access time of these files is still close enough to what the modification time was, so I'd like to change them back.
Is there a way of doing a touch where it sets the mtime = atime? I don't want to set them all to the same timestamp, but I want to go file-by-file setting mtime = atime...
I have a bunch of files in a directory where the modification time was changed (incorrectly) with touch -m
The access time of these files is still close enough to what the modification time was, so I'd like to change them back.
Is there a way of doing a touch where it sets the mtime = atime? I don't want to set them all to the same timestamp, but I want to go file-by-file setting mtime = atime.
I have a bunch of files in a directory where the modification time was changed (incorrectly) with touch -m
The access time of these files is still close enough to what the modification time was, so I'd like to change them back.
Is there a way of doing a touch where it sets the mtime = atime? I don't want to set them all to the same timestamp, but I want to go file-by-file setting mtime = atime...
