getfiletime() and setfiletime()
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sat Apr 22 06:04:43 UTC 2006
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:56:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 21), Gary Kline said:
> > > You can use mtree to do this.
> >
> > How, exactly? In ~/Mail are scores of files dating from 1991; for
> > the most part this Content-Type = "text/html" for rough example only
> > began in the late 90's. But there are scads of them. I'm looking at
> > pulling some of the guts from cp (copy -p that preserves the
> > time-stamp [and more]). If mtree is an easier route, then great.
> > How would I run this file
> >
> > -rw------- 1 kline wheel 306870 Dec 22 2004 ebay.com
> >
> > thru my filter and have wind up with its original timestamp.
>
> $ mtree -c -k time -p ~/Mail > mail.times
>
> $ run filter
>
> $ mtree -U -p ~/Mail < mail.times
>
Yup; your trick does it all; thankee!!
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