Change Create Date on Directory

[Pleiades]

I want to run a script to delete any directory over a certain age, so for testing I want to create a bunch of dir's and change their date to one over 30 days old. Anyone know how to modify the create date on a directory?

Cheers,

David.

[clowenstein]

Strictly speaking, Linux/Unix files don't have "Create" dates. They have, among other things, "Change" dates which indicate the last time the status information of the file was changed. For lots of information, read $(man 2 stat).

As a partial answer to the question, see this small shell sample:

[cdl@delta try]$ mkdir foo.d
[cdl@delta try]$ ls -ld foo.d
drwxrwxr-x 2 cdl cdl 4096 Nov 1 11:00 foo.d/
[cdl@delta try]$ touch --date=1-oct-2007 foo.d
[cdl@delta try]$ ls -ld foo.d
drwxrwxr-x 2 cdl cdl 4096 Oct 1 00:00 foo.d/

carl

[Pleiades]

Strictly speaking, Linux/Unix files don't have "Create" dates. They have, among other things, "Change" dates which indicate the last time the status information of the file was changed. For lots of information, read $(man 2 stat).

As a partial answer to the question, see this small shell sample:

[cdl@delta try]$ mkdir foo.d
[cdl@delta try]$ ls -ld foo.d
drwxrwxr-x 2 cdl cdl 4096 Nov 1 11:00 foo.d/
[cdl@delta try]$ touch --date=1-oct-2007 foo.d
[cdl@delta try]$ ls -ld foo.d
drwxrwxr-x 2 cdl cdl 4096 Oct 1 00:00 foo.d/

carl

Champion, Carl. Just what I was after. Thanks mate.