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hekevintran
Asked: 2010-06-20 15:50:52 +0800 CST

Editing modification times of files on Mac OS X

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How can I set the modification time of a file on Mac OS X from the command line?

mac-osx date-modified

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  1. Best Answer

    MacOS, and most (all?) Unix-like OSs have a touch command, that lets you modify access + mtimes.

    on MacOS:

    touch 06011200 file

    Will set the mtime of 'file' to June 1st of this year.

    GNU's version lets you specify times in a slightly more convenient format:

    touch -d yesterday file
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