Timestamps are not updated

[610th]

I'm trying to use the plugin as suggested in this Stack Overflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50396550/6478211

aws s3 touch my-bucket --prefix myfolder/

Expected outcome: files located in myfolder have their timestamps updated to current date.
Actual outcome: nothing happens.

I will gladly provide more information if you ask. Right now I'm not sure about what to provide.

s3touch version: master: fef8f40edc457b945139b14bb2c88bde66b2f3d7
aws-cli version: aws-cli/1.16.300 Python/3.6.9 Linux/5.0.0-37-generic botocore/1.13.36

[adyekjaer]

Hi there,

That is not the intention of this plugin. This plugin simulates a write of a file to S3 to trigger an event that other AWS services can subscribe to.

The s3 object is left untouched.

The answer in that StackOverflow discussion is incorrect AFAIK.

~Anders

[610th]

@adyekjaer Alright. Thanks. That's bad news for me. I got that the intention was different from reading the README, but the Stack Overflow post seemed to be posted by the maintainer of this repo.

I guess this issue can be closed if it's not possible to do what I want.

[adyekjaer]

Right, well usually the need is to replay events not to actually change the timestamp. I'm pretty sure this requires you to write a bit of code that copy/pastes the object. You can if need be select an object or a full "directory" in the S3 console and select copy, then paste.

Cheers