Showing posts with label windows vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows vista. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

One Line Windows Touch Command (Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.)

I was looking around the web for an easy way to simulate the unix command touch - but I kept finding old variants that would not work past Windows ME. I worked with the FOR loop in batch scripting. Here's the version that works for me:

To set all CSV files to the current time:

for /F "usebackq delims=|"  %i in (`dir /B *.csv`) do copy %i /B+ ,,/Y

Note: to set a single file to the current date:

copy filenamt /B+ ,,/Y

A lot of sites suggested dir with no /B - but this doesn't work for me in Windows 8.

Of course, you can "touch" all files like so:

for /F "usebackq delims=|"  %i in (`dir /B *.*`) do copy %i /B+ ,,/Y