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A small bash script to find all files with wrong date (1 Jan 1970) and set to current date. Tested in Mac (OS X 10.8) but should work in other UNIXes
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update-date.sh
#!/bin/bash
#update-date.sh: a small script to find all files with wrong date (1 Jan 1970) and set to current date
COMP_FILE=$HOME/comp_file_delete_me
touch -t 197001020101 $COMP_FILE
echo Comparing with $COMP_FILE
echo Obtaining list of files with wrong date. Will take some time…
find ./ -depth -type f -not -newer $COMP_FILE -print -exec touch {} \;
rm $COMP_FILE
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