Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-WebMail-UserID: nch Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:39:21 +0000 From: Dr Christian Hicks To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00104934 Subject: RE: Timestamp not updating Message-ID: <3FBED172@webmail.ncl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newcastle-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Postmaster AT newcastle DOT ac DOT uk for more information X-Newcastle-MailScanner: Found to be clean ls -alu does the trick. I am used to Solaris on the Suns where ls -alc does show changed times after touching or modification. Thanks, Chris >===== Original Message From cygwin AT cygwin DOT com ===== >On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > >> I have just realised that after I have touched the files they >> show as being updated if I view the files with Windows Explorer. >> It is ls -alc and make that do not see the files as updated. >> >> Best regards, >> Chris > >The following is from "ls --help": > > -c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last > modification of file status information) > with -l: show ctime and sort by name > otherwise: sort by ctime > >In other words, you're essentially asking it to print the file creation >time. "touch" doesn't change that. Try "ls -alu" or even "ls -al" -- >you should get different times there. > >I don't know if this explains your make problems. > Igor >-- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu >ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > >"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route >to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Dr Christian Hicks Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering, Stephenson Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU. Phone: +44 191 222 6238 Mobile 0795 8317804 Fax: + 44 191 222 8600 Homepage: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/chris.hicks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/