Thus it was written in the epistle of Andrew Russel,
>
> However, unlike in the shell, where I can specify '*'
> for all files, there using the method you suggest only
> appears to allow individual file names, not a global
> [log in to unmask] As I want to change the access date/time on all
> the files in my group, I would like to be able to
> wildcard this.

While it seems very odd to me to want to claim that every file in the group
was accessed by your simply logging on, I think I can be of help with the
question.  The wildcarding is done not by touch but rather by the shell.  When
you do a

touch *

what touch thinks you typed is

touch file1 file2 file3 . . .

So you have at least three options:
  1) Use CI programming to loop through all the files, doing a touch on each.
     This will be the slowest of the options by far, as it has to fire up
     touch multiple times.
  2) Call the shell with the -c (IIRC) option.  Here's a first pass, off the
     top of my head:
       xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'touch *'"
     This is probably the cleanest and only has to run the shell and touch
     each once.
  3) Use CI programming to build up a touch command line of the nature:
       xeq touch.hpbin.sys "-a file1 file2 file3 file4"
     and execute this.  I'm not sure whether 2 or 3 will be faster, but
     this will allow you to avoid the shell if that is important to you.

HTH,
Ted
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