gulp-touch-custom

Change file access and modification times of files in gulp streams

Install

Install with npm

npm install --save-dev gulp-touch-custom

Usage

Pipe into this after piping to a gulp destination (files must have been written to disk) to touch the files.

On each file, set an optional touch member (of type Date or fs.Stats) to set the access and modification times to a certain value, similar to the command line touch -t and touch -r.

Example (simple touch to current timestamp)

var gulp = require('gulp');
var touch = require('gulp-touch-custom');

gulp.task('default', function() {
  return gulp.src('./src/**/*')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dest'))
    .pipe(touch());
});

Example (touch by reference)

var gulp = require('gulp');
var through = require('through2');
var touch = require('gulp-touch-custom');
var Vinyl = require('vinyl');

function exampleproc() {
  return through.obj(function (file, encoding, cb) {
    // This gulp step outputs multiple files
    this.push(new Vinyl({
      path: file.relative + '.stamp',
      contents: Buffer.from('Hello, World.'),
      touch: file.stat.mtime, // Use timestamp of the source file by reference
    }));
    this.push(file); // With file.touch undefined, will be use the current time
    cb();
  });
}

gulp.task('default', function (next) {
  return gulp.src('./src/**/*.foo')
    .pipe(exampleproc())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dest'))
    .pipe(touch());
});