Dirdate Recurse Problem

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JackOfHearts
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Dirdate Recurse Problem

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I am running DirDate v5.7 Portable 64bit on Windws 7 Pro 64.

There seems to be a problem with the "Recurse" (-R) command in DirDate.

If "Disk_2" is a directory and I enter the command:

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dirdate -R -ALL d=01/06/2013 t=00:00:00 Disk_2
Only the dates for directory "Disk_2" are changed, not any of the files inside directory "Disk_2".

If however I enter the command:

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dirdate -R -ALL d=01/06/2013 t=00:00:00 *.*
The dates for directory "Disk_2" are changed as well as the all the files in directory "Disk_2"

If the "Recurse" command is to be recursive, when a specific directory is named and the -R option is used, then all files and subdirectories within the specified directory should also be targeted.
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Re: Dirdate Recurse Problem

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The Recurse command requires you to specify which files to operate on, because otherwise your wildcard is effectively 'Disk_2'.

It not actually a bug, but an artefact of having to provide a distinction between file operations and folder operations.
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