'touch' on *nix = ??? on Windows?

[Mike Bonner]

Oh, proviso: I didn't try it using a property, just used a field reference
instead, but seems like it shouldn't make a difference, and should be faster
(I think) than the shell call, especially if the file is large since the
weird copy command actually does do a strange pseudo copy.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, heres another interesting method
>
> If you put the following into a property
>
> *Dim objShell, objFolder*
> *    *
> *    Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")*
> *    Set objFolder = objShell.NameSpace("[[tFolder]]")*
> *    objFolder.Items.Item("[[tFile]]").ModifyDate = "[[the date && the
> time]]"*
> *
> *
> then you can split out the folder name into tFolder (including trailing
> slash) and filename into tFile, then execute it as follows
>
> *do merge(the propertyyouset) as vbscript*
>
> seems to work like  a charm
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike! I'll check it out.
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/12/11 2:20 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>
>>> I believe you can do this
>>> get shell("copy /b myfile.txt + , ,")
>>>
>>> Should work, but i'd test it on non-critical files first, or have
>>> backups.
>>>  Seems to work from the bit of testing i've done.
>>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Phil Davis<revdev at pdslabs.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Is there a Windows equivalent to the Unix 'touch' command? I would like
>>>> to
>>>> prevent the last-mod date of a Windows file from showing when the file
>>>> was
>>>> actually last modified.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks -
>>>> --
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>>>>
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