NAME

        cooktime - set file times

SYNOPSIS

        cooktime [ option...  ] filename...
        cooktime -Help
        cooktime -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

        The cooktime program is used to set the modified time or access time of a file.  This can
        be used to defend against unwanted logical dependencies when making "minor" changes to
        files.

        If no option is specified, the default action is as if "-Modify now" was specified.

OPTIONS

        The following options are understood.

        -Access date
                This option may be used to set the last-access time of the files.  The date is
                relatively free-format; rember to use quotes to insulate spaces from the shell.

        -Modify date
                This option may be used to set the last-modify time of the files.  The date is
                relatively free-format; rember to use quotes to insulate spaces from the shell.

        -Time-Stamp-Granularity seconds
                This option may be used to specify the granularity of the filesystem's
                timestamps, otherwise a default value of 1 second is used.

        -Report
                When use alone, produces a listing of access times and modify times for the named
                files.  When used with -Access or -Modify, produces a listing of the changes
                made.

        -Help
                Give some information on how to use the cooktime command.

        Any other option will generate a diagnostic error.

        All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the upper case letters,
        all lower case letters and underscores (_) are optional.  You must use consecutive
        sequences of optional letters.

        All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or lower case or a
        combination of both, case is not important.

        For example: the arguments "-help", "-HEL" and "-h" are all interpreted to mean the -Help
        option.  The argument "-hlp" will not be understood, because consecutive optional
        characters were not supplied.

        Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on the command line.

        The GNU long option names are understood.  Since all option names for cooktime are long,
        this means ignoring the extra leading '-'.  The "--option=value" convention is also
        understood.

EXIT STATUS

        The cooktime command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.  The cooktime command
        will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.

COPYRIGHT

        cooktime version 2.33
        Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
        2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Peter Miller

        The cooktime program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'cooktime
        -VERSion License' command.  This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it
        under certain conditions; for details use the 'cooktime -VERSion License' command.

AUTHOR

        Peter Miller   E-Mail:   pmiller@opensource.org.au
        /\/\*             WWW:   http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/