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tomm1111
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: find . \| xargs touch

What does this do exactly? ...and if it were run what damage did it do?

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

It will update the timestamps of all the files in and below the current directory.

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:34 am Post subject:

Thanks. Bummer. I didn't need to do that.

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