``touch''ing a file in Ruby

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Hi,

How do you change the mtime (and ctime and atime, if possible) of
a file in Ruby? I'll probably be running this on Solaris, IRIX,
and Linux.

Thank you,
Richard Ryan

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See File.utime.

Best regards,

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On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:41:41AM +0900, Richard A. Ryan wrote:

Hi,

How do you change the mtime (and ctime and atime, if possible) of
a file in Ruby? I'll probably be running this on Solaris, IRIX,
and Linux.

--
Zane Dodson

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Richard A. Ryan wrote:

Hi,

How do you change the mtime (and ctime and atime, if possible) of
a file in Ruby? I'll probably be running this on Solaris, IRIX,
and Linux.

------------------------------------------------------------ File::utime
     File.utime(atime, mtime, file_name,...) => integer

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     Sets the access and modification times of each named file to the
     first two arguments. Returns the number of file names in the
     argument list.

Don't know about ctime, though.

:daz