Date: 15 Aug 2007

> How to let command touch to work with irregular file names?
>
> FYI, I tried this but didn't work:
>
> $ touch -r -- "-test.file1" "-test.file2"
> touch: invalid date format `est.file1'

That's nearly right; put the — immediately following the last option, e.g.

$ touch -r '-test.file1' — '-test.file2'

Philip Rowlands @doc.ic.ac.uk