timestamp an application bundle

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to change the timestamp of an application bundle from the Terminal? I tried "touch xxx.app" and it says "operation not permitted".

Thanks,
Andrew

Could you be a little more specific? What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

You can "touch" an App bundle if you wanted to do so but note that App bundles are in fact folders, not files. "cd" into an app bundle or right click it in Finder and select "Show Package Contents" to see what I mean.

Thanks for your reply. Yes I realize it is a folder. I see now that I can indeed touch an .app. What I was trying to do which is not working (and still trying to do), is to touch an .app using the date/time of another file.

For example:

touch -r thefile.txt myapp.app

This only seems to work for files, but not folders.