Change last edited date

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How can I change the last edited date of a file? There doesn't seem to be anything like:

chlastediteddate  12/7/12 file

What command can do this? Is there a way to do this without changing what the computer thinks is the date, editing the file, and correcting what the computer thinks is the date?

Dupe of https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2464/timestamp-modification-time-and-created-time-of-a-file/ — muru, Oct 27 '22 at 07:29

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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The command you are looking for is touch with the option -d (or --date)

touch - change file timestamp

(...)

-d, --date=STRING

parse STRING and use it instead of current time

For example:

touch -d '2016-01-15 22:41:18' file

or even

touch -d '3 months ago' file

As always man touch is your friend.

edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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answered Apr 15 '16 at 21:43

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