Thanks for everbodies ideas, they all seems to work well...apart from anybody know if touch can 'touch' symbolics and directories ?
i.e. i still have directories and links which were created in the year 2020... Nige > -----Original Message----- > From: Heather [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 November 2000 17:45 > To: Sale, Nigel > Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A little off topic...laptop date. > > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i > > subscribe to, > > > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny > turn the other > > day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of > days before > > i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 > years in the > > future. > > > > Does anybody know how i can first find all these files ? > I'm sure i should > > be able to use the find comand but can't find the right options, > > And secondly, any way to subract 20 yeats from a files > creation date ? > > If you > cd / > find . -daystart -ctime 0 -ls > > it seems to find all files that are from today (as of just > past midnight) > into the far future. (I tested by using touch with the -d > option to put > a 2032 date on some webfile I am messing with.) > > With the -ls option on there, all your future files will be > obvious, because > the ones from today won't mention the year. You could do the > same command > without ls to get them all into a file so you can do a touch > and bring them > back to a sane time, if you want. It'd be more complicated, > but potentially > more fun and/or useful, to figure out what the offset is, and > cook up a > bash script which actually subtracted the time on things. > Not exactly what > everybody wants to do with their afternoon tho. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Nige > > Best of luck > > * Heather Stern * star@ many places... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
