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Touch Change Access, Modify AND Change

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Mar 15, 20262600 views
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I know you can use "touch" to change the access and modify timestamps of a file using the "-t" flag but is it possible to change the "change" timestamp. If so how would I go about doing this? Thanks so much for your time.

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Fix for: Touch Change Access, Modify AND Change

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You're asking how to set the value of a file. The only way to do that is to change the system date and then change the file, which is quite a crude method that will probably cause harm to the rest of your system. If you're using (maybe and also?) yo…

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