Hello

I need to change the modification date on a directory to 01-JAN-2006

I know you can change the modfication time on files using touch but I
wondered if there was an equivilant for directories

Thanks in advance

For me touch also works with directories. I have bash on cygwin

$ ls -ld test
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 18035 mkgroup-l-d 0 Apr 4 12:40 test
$ touch -d yesterday test
$ ls -ld test
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 18035 mkgroup-l-d 0 Apr 3 12:40 test
$ $0 --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.33(18)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Thanks for that

I was using the wrong syntax with touch for the directories. It has
worked after all!!