Re: Recursive touching... Whoo hoo!

I saved a message to myself with the answer to this a long time ago.  I 
assume it works.  I know that I wound up writing myself a "TOUCH" OS/400 
command that does it all.

find /FolderName/SubFolder -name '*.jsp' -exec touch -acfm {} \; 

The C API "utime" does the same thing as Touch and can be protyped and 
called from RPGLE.  You would have to use other API's to do the pattern 
matching to find the files.  Looking at the command I wrote, I think I 
only did the former because the process that was going to use the command 
knew the files.

Hope this helps.

Mark

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/13/2004 04:41:05 PM:

> Alright, I give.
> 
> What's the easiest programmatic way to touch a file in the IFS?  I
> wanted to do "touch *.jsp" in a folder, and I get the dreaded "too many
> arguments" error, because there are too many files in the folder (don't
> get me started on how stupid this is).
> 
> So, now I'd like some suggestions on the simplest way to:
> 
> 1. Touch a single file
> 2. Specify a folder and touch every JSP in that folder and all its
> subfolders.
> 
> A straightforward multi-step process using temporary files and standard
> shell commands is an acceptable possibility.  Simple code for doing it
> from RPG is also fine.
> 
> Last place option is a Java program.
> 
> Joe
> 
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