[plug] Adjust a timestamp by a specified amount

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:02:41PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:56:52PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> | man stat
> | 
> | Which yields the not-entirely complete solution of
> | 
> | 	stat --format "touch -m -d \`expr %Y + 0$offset\` %n" * | sh
> 
> That's not going to work if the file name contains any quirky
> characters, though.

 	stat --format "touch -m -d \`expr %Y + 0$offset\` '%n'" * | sh

then. Just your basic shell quoting stuff

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