NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Touch - library to help you touch files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Touch.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.26

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::File::Touch qw();
        my($ok)=Meta::Utils::File::Touch::now($file1);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the case for touching files. It will change a files date to a certain date or do the same with the current date (which is usually just refered to as "touching" the file...).

FUNCTIONS

        date($$$$)
        now($$$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

date($$$$)

This routine receives: 0. file - file to be modiles (by modify time). 1. time - time to set modify time of file to. 2. demo - whether to touch or just a demo. 3. verb - whether to be verbose or not.

The routine uses the utime function of perl to change to modify time of the file to the time required doing nothing if demo is not 0 and printing a message if verbose is 1.

now($$$)

This receievs a files and sets touches it so its modified date becomes now. This just uses Meta::Utils::Time::now_epoch to get the current time and the date function in this module.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented
        0.04 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.05 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.06 MV correct die usage
        0.07 MV perl code quality
        0.08 MV more perl quality
        0.09 MV more perl quality
        0.10 MV perl documentation
        0.11 MV more perl quality
        0.12 MV perl qulity code
        0.13 MV more perl code quality
        0.14 MV revision change
        0.15 MV languages.pl test online
        0.16 MV perl packaging
        0.17 MV md5 project
        0.18 MV database
        0.19 MV perl module versions in files
        0.20 MV movies and small fixes
        0.21 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.22 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.23 MV website construction
        0.24 MV web site automation
        0.25 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.26 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.