Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:04:35 -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: <20060422060435.GB43775@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060422055616.GE73063@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060421234246.GA42445@thought.org> <20060422031204.GD73063@dan.emsphone.com> <20060422042741.GA43461@thought.org> <20060422055616.GE73063@dan.emsphone.com>
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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!! -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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