From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:54:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Interpret a lone numeric argument of 8 or 10
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_32~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3324ca1965535fb3ab01c110350c6ebdede434a;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): Interpret a lone numeric argument of 8 or 10
digits as a file name, rather than as a date/time in the obsolescent
`MMDDhhmm[YY]' format.  Reported by Wenjun Zheng.
---

diff --git a/src/touch.c b/src/touch.c
index a105751462..df595ae8ec 100644
--- a/src/touch.c
+++ b/src/touch.c
@@ -334,7 +334,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       date_set++;
     }
 
-  if (!date_set && optind < argc && !STREQ (argv[optind - 1], "--"))
+  /* The obsolescent `MMDDhhmm[YY]' form is valid IFF there are
+     two or more non-option arguments.  */
+  if (!date_set && 2 <= argc - optind && !STREQ (argv[optind - 1], "--"))
     {
       newtime = posixtime (argv[optind], PDS_TRAILING_YEAR);
       if (newtime != (time_t) -1)