On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Mar, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > moin moin, > > > Looking to change some file dares to 14 hours later than the current file >> date/time stamps (they are NOT all the same). I was thinking some form of >> the -d option would work but nothing I have tried works- >> > > $ date; touch -d "$( date -d "+14 hours" +%Y%b%d )" /tmp/fred; ls -l > /tmp/fred Fr 29. Mär 16:57:45 MST 2013 > -rw-r--r-- 1 lufthans lufthans 0 2013-03-30 01:13 /tmp/fred > > The "+14 hours" only works with GNU date, but that's what we get on > GNU/Linux. BSD date really didn't like it :). > > ciao, > > der.hans > This is close but not quite. Maybe I could have explained it better. I have taken a LOT if video clips here in Thailand. Unfortunately, the camera clock was still set for Arizona time until several days into the trip. Now that I have fixed that I want to re-timestamp the first 100 or so to have the timestamp adjusted +14 hours. Here is what I get from der.Hans' script: larry@sunfish:~/tempwork$ ls -l target; date; touch -d "$( date -d "+14 hours" +%Y%b%d )" target; ls -l target -rw-rw-r-- 1 larry larry 0 Mar 24 18:18 target Fri Mar 29 23:55:49 MST 2013 touch: invalid date format `2013Mar30' -rw-rw-r-- 1 larry larry 0 Mar 24 18:18 target larry@sunfish:~/tempwork$ I can fix the date format I believe, but the target's timestamp should end up being Mar 25 08:18, not Mar 30 13:55. The reason I want a script or compound command to do it is so i don't have to figure out the +14 hours 100+ times and issue 100+ touch commands. Thanks, I hope I can get the timestamp extracted to a variable and use that to replace the date command (if I don't fall asleep first :-) Larry > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/**Classes/ > # Free, Libre, and Open Source enthusiasts are collaborators. Maybe we're > # involved for slightly different reasons, but in the end, we're all > # essentially trying to go the same direction. -- der.hans, 2012Jan25 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.