Commands using touch

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.

This is great for looking for files that have been updated recently. Logs especially or monitoring what files were added during an install.

Thanks th John_W for suggesting the fix allowing ~/ to be used when saving a directory.

directions:

Type in a url, it will show a preview of what the file will look like when saved, then asks if you want to save the preview and where you want to save it. Great for grabbing the latest commandlinefu commands without a full web browser or even a GUI. Requires: w3m

Create a file with actual date as filename

mkdir some file and mv some file

touch a dummy file with the specified date, then use find with -anewer .