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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means
one file is created at the time 15:19 then time should br
changed to 14:14

Question Posted / pranab

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / deepti shrivastava

touch :- used to change the time stamps

Syntax :- touch options expression filename(s)
where expression consists of eight digit number
using the format MMDDhhmm(month,day,hr & min)
E.g :- $ touch 03091245 emp.lst ; ls -l emp.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumar metal 870 Mar 09 12:45 emp.lst

The -m & -a options chng the modifications & access times.
$ touch -m 02281030 emp.lst ; ls -l emp.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 kumar metal 870 Feb 28 10:30 emp.lst

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / ravikumar

use touch command to change the date

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / jin

touch -d '14:14' emp.lst

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / ashok shah

For linux user, use the following command.
$touch -t yyyymmddhhmm.ss filename

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / sudhir

The folwing command used for the above question

touch -m -a -t 08271113 abc.txt

here the format which we nee to specify is as below.
08271113
mmddhhmi

Regards,
Sudhir

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / atul khachane

Yes. Touch command update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.

-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time

-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time

-d and -t options accept different time-date formats.

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / phil

All of the above are wrong. 'touch' can only change the
creation time to the current time. touch -t [date] does not
change creation time.

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What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time ..

Answer / anilkumar

TOUCH -T [CCYYMMDhhmm] Filename in HP-UNIX

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