Roy Finke wrote: > Are there any plans to add the -R (recursive) option to the touch command? > I need all files in all sub-directories to have today's timestamp.
I can't speak for the maintainers but I can't see any reason to add 'find' capability to the utilities. It just bloats those commands. See the FAQ for details. Look for "built in directory recursion" for one part and "Argument list too long" for another part. http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ Just use 'find' and 'xargs' to do what you want. find ./dir -print0 | xargs -r0 touch The -print0 and -0 options uses null terminated strings which handle filenames with any weird character in them. The -r option tells xargs not to run the command at all if the directory is empty. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
