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Unamata Sanatarai
Asked: 2015-02-02 01:32:42 +0800 CST

How to `touch` files recursively?

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I need to change the timestamp of about 5000 files.

Typing touch file1.txt, touch file2.txt will take me forever.

Is there a way to do something in the lines of touch -R *?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use find command to find all your files and execute touch on every found file using -exec

    find . -type f -exec touch {} +

    If you want to filter your result only for text files, you can use

    find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec touch {} +
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