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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-01-16 07:53:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-01-16 07:53:19 +0000 |
| commit | 7430e918cb579aa0d340e12b7dfe003d7dca6746 (patch) | |
| tree | 96f94a1a27225a6e6e356b311a2ab51d2653c666 /doc | |
| parent | 99ce232e0cd4b724780860f5f9b362918a44143e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-7430e918cb579aa0d340e12b7dfe003d7dca6746.tar.xz | |
(touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 416111823..aace0f88f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8126,6 +8126,11 @@ Change the modification time only. @opindex -r @opindex --reference Use the times of the reference @var{file} instead of the current time. +If this option is combined with the @option{--date=@var{time}} +(@option{-d @var{time}}) option, the reference @var{file}'s time is +the origin for any relative @var{time}s given, but is otherwise ignored. +For example, @samp{-r foo -d '-5 seconds'} specifies a time stamp +equal to five seconds before the corresponding time stamp for @file{foo}. @item -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] Use the argument (optional four-digit or two-digit years, months, |