Chinh Do

Touching a File with PowerShell

25th June 2008

Touching a File with PowerShell

posted in PowerShell, Programming |

I am finding more and more things I can do with PowerShell everyday. The other day, I had to “touch” a file… one line is what it takes:

(ls testFile.txt).LastWriteTime = New-object DateTime 1991,12,31
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There are currently 2 responses to “Touching a File with PowerShell”

  1. 1 On May 26th, 2011, D said:

    (ls testFile.txt).LastWriteTime = Get-Date

    posted on May 26th, 2011 at 6:56 am

  2. 2 On May 26th, 2011, Chinh Do said:

    Thanks for the tip, D. If we go with the standard definition of “touch” – to change the file modification time to the current time – then your version is definitely shorter. When I was doing this, I had a need to use a specific time.

    posted on May 26th, 2011 at 8:47 am

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