Better Living Through Thinking

retouch

Tue, 13 Sep 2005

retouch makes one or more files have the same date as another file.

Why would you want to do this? Here's what I do with it: sometimes I need to edit a blog entry (I use blosxom) but editing the entry changes the timestamp. I'm an emacs user, which renames the original file with a tilde (~) at the end. So now I can just do this:

retouch file.txt~ file.txt

and now I have my cake and and can eat it too.

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