On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Laurent Charpentier wrote: >> touch --date "$(date --date '1 hour ago')" /tmp/foo >In fact I want the date '1 hour' younger than its current timestamp >(not 1 hour ago from now).
It's getting messy, but I think this works: $ touch -d "$(date -d "$(date -r foo) 1 hour ago")" foo Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils