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You have folders or files in your server last modified date/time was 3 months ago, sometime for some reason we would like to change files or folders last modified date/time to older or recent date. You can modify the date/time of a folder or file with Unix/Linux touch command.

For example I have a file name wireless.pcap, last update or created was in year 2009. I can change the last modify time by the touch command touch -t yyyymmddhhmm filename

shell> touch -t 201007101540 wireless.pcap

This will change the file last updated date and time to 10th July 2010 15:40pm.

Change Data and Time of a File

At times, we might want to change date and time of a file, for record purposes. For example, when you copying log file from remote machine, when it’s extract on local machine, the date and time will reflect to current date time.

touch Command

To update the date and time of file, run;

touch -t ccyymmddhhMMSS filename

For more info, run;

man touch