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

[Mike Bonner]

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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