How to create dummy files in UNIX?
hello experts -
How to create the dummy files for last 6 months in UNIX?
I need these dummy files for testing a archiving script that we have.
Any ideas?
How to create the dummy files for last 6 months in UNIX?
I need these dummy files for testing a archiving script that we have.
Any ideas?
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Thanks.
found a soultion by myself.
found a soultion by myself.
The proposed solution above will create files with the current timestamp.
To create files with a certain timestamp you should have been using
touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] filename
with
CC - century e.g. '20'
YY - year e.g.'09'
MM - month e.g. '04'
DD - day e.g. '01'
hh - hour e.g.'00'
mm - minute e.g. '00'
SS - second e.g. '00'
So touch -t 200904010000 filename will create a file of name filename older than 6 months, i.e. from April, 1st 2009
Always glad to help,
wmp
To create files with a certain timestamp you should have been using
touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] filename
with
CC - century e.g. '20'
YY - year e.g.'09'
MM - month e.g. '04'
DD - day e.g. '01'
hh - hour e.g.'00'
mm - minute e.g. '00'
SS - second e.g. '00'
So touch -t 200904010000 filename will create a file of name filename older than 6 months, i.e. from April, 1st 2009
Always glad to help,
wmp
ASKER
Thanks wmp for the wonderful answer. Good luck to you.
ASKER
The key here is the timestamp. The archiving script will be looking for this unix system timestamp as a key to archive the files which are older then 180 days.