Does anyone know how to change the creation and last access dates of a directory? TOUCH does not support directories. Thanks.
On 2008-11-28 15:27, Stefano Piccardi wrote: The TOUCH help says: "By default, TOUCH affects only files. You must utilize the /A: option to include directories. /A:D will select directories only."
Stefano Piccardi wrote: | Does anyone know how to change the creation and last access dates of | a directory? TOUCH does not support directories. Thanks. The method was mentioned by others. However, changing the "last accessed" date of a directory is almost always a wasted effort. Almost any action relating to a directory updates its access date. -- Steve
Thank you both for your replies. I had to fight TCC a bit to find a way to touch a directory tree without touching its files. The trick is that it seems TOUCH /A: works only when the directory name is "." at least for me. Any other full or relative directory path triggers an error. So, given %root%, the path of the tree root directory, pushd cdd /n "%root%" global /q touch /a: /q /tw08:15 . popd resets the write time of root and all its sub-directories to 8:15.
