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changing date of file

Hi there,
Can someone help me out ?
I want to make a script which modifies the date of a certain file on the server. Can someone tell me the command to modify the date ?

maneshr

use

$filename="/tmp/thisfile.htm";
`touch $filename`;

oostwijk

ASKER

ok, that's on thing, but by using this the script doesn't know what date it should get..

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ercis

#include <time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <utime.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int date = 21;
int month = 10;
int year = 2001;
char *filename = "name_of_file";

time_t t;
struct tm mktimeb;
struct utimbuf utimeb;

if(argc == 2) filename = argv[1];

mktimeb.tm_sec = 0;
mktimeb.tm_min = 0;
mktimeb.tm_hour = 0;
mktimeb.tm_mday = date;
mktimeb.tm_mon = month - 1;
mktimeb.tm_year = year - 1900;
mktimeb.tm_isdst = -1;

t = mktime(&mktimeb);

// utimeb.actime = t; /* access time */
utimeb.modtime = t; /* modification time */

if( utime(filename, &utimeb) )
switch(errno)
{
case (EACCES):
printf("Write to file \'%s\' is denied", filename);
case (ENOENT):
printf("File \'%s\' does not exist", filename);
exit(1);
}

exit (0);
}

oostwijk

ASKER

Well done, keep up the good work