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Subj:	RE: modifying file date

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 22:38:42 EDT
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@LRW.COM>
To: INFO-VAX@KL.SRI.COM
Subject: RE: modifying file date

Here's the simplest "touch" command I know of:

	$ touch :== SET FILE/BACKUP

The only time this fails is in the unlikely case that you want to touch a file
that is set /NOBACKUP.  (It will, of course, end up being set /BACKUP.)  Not
a big problem, in my experience - AND you get the advantage of wild-carding
and all the standard file selection mechanisms (/CREATED/BEFORE, /BY_OWNER,
etc.) for free.
							-- Jerry