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Re: a touch question


Jonathan,

[ To my knowledge, this is not Cygwin-specific. ]

Here's one simple way:

         rtouch() { touch $(find "$@"); }

Rather slower, but unlimited by maximum argument list length limit:

         rtouch() { find "$@" -exec touch '{}' ';' ; }

If you want to be able to include touch options, then you'll need to make a 
pass over the arguments, culling options into one array and file or 
directory arguments into another and then making one or the other of the 
touch / find invocations. I'll leave that "as an exercise for the reader."

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 22:20 2002-01-18, you wrote:
>Is there any way of touch-ing recursively?
>
>------------------------------------------
>Jonathan Simms


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