Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:27:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: getfiletime() and setfiletime() Message-ID: <20060422042741.GA43461@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060422031204.GD73063@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060421234246.GA42445@thought.org> <20060422031204.GD73063@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:12:04PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 21), Gary Kline said: > > With all the billions-and-billions of lines of C hacked by > > people reading this, do any of you have the functions that > > would get and save-away the stat mtime, then be able to set the > > original mtime of the file to what it was? > > > > I am getting back to working on a programm that cleans away > > embedded html, jpg, and other non ASCII (or 8859-1) and leaves > > just-plain-text. This from my ~/Mail/* files. Ideally, I > > would like to set the timestamp of each file to what it was. So > > before I re-invent wheels, I thought I'd ask the list. > > 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. gary PS: I'm prob'ly making this more complicated than need be.... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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