Commands using touch

make a bunch of files with the same permissions, owner, group, and content as a template file

(handy if you have much to do w. .php, .html files or alike)

I'm annoyed by the boilerplate "don't login unless you are supposed messages in our environment" - this shuts them up.

Copies file to a temporary location, edit and set to real file's time stamp then copy back. Assumes access to /tmp and has $EDITOR, but can be replaced with better values.

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ;

creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between:

201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00

201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00

then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file:

find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last

meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last"

pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command:

| xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/

and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation:

rm first; rm last;

Somehow, i prefer forcing to rm interactively to accidently rm'ing everything...

Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date.

I simply find binary notation more straightforward to use than octal in this case.

Obviously it is overkill if you just 600 or 700 all of your files...

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers.

I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.

Change file time stamp

creates 100 directories f(1-100) with a file in each matched to the directory (/f1/myfile1, .. /f98/myfile98,/f99/myfile99/,/f100/myfile100,etc )

Use the command to create a script and bind it to a key using keyboard shortcut.

eg:

Script locks the screen in a loop until the command is executed again.At first it

Example above will recursively find files in current directory created/modified in 2010.

Forces the -i flag on the rm command when using a wildcard delete.

This will create, in the current directory, a file called 'pk.pem' containing an unencrypted 2048-bit RSA private key and a file called 'cert.pem' containing a certificate signed by 'pk.pem'. The private key file will have mode 600.

!!ATTENTION!! ==> this command will overwrite both files if present.

Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.