. Thanks again for the responses. 'touch' worked. I used this syntax: $ touch -t 0705141341 filename.jpg That set the file date as: May 14 at 13:41 (year 2007) -------------------- > Josef Lowder wrote: > > How can I back-date a file to an older date that > > reflects its original creation date rather than its > > last modified date? > > > > I want to do this so the file dates will correctly identify > > the dates the photos were originally taken rather than the > > later dates that I modified, cropped, and resized them, etc. On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, JT Moree wrote > jhead will do this. I wrote some wrapper scripts as part of picbook > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/picbook/) to do this kind of stuff. > they call jhead and/or touch. > > http://picbook.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/picbook/picbook/FixImage.sh > might be useful to you. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss