On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:16:43 -0800 Randall R Schulz
Yo!
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 20:58, Greg Wallace wrote:
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Ken: It's not that he doesn't want to know the last modification date, he just also wants to preserve the creation date as well.
Is this conversation any more moot than the religious one?
There is not nor has there ever been a creation time in any Linux or Unix file system.
OK. I don't actually know that for a fact, but if there is or ever was
such a thing, it was not in a mainstream Unix / Linux file system.
OP, This might be what you want: mv file.conf file.conf.orig; cp file.conf.orig file.conf ("mv" doesn't change the date of the file, but "cp" does, hence the "original" date will be preserved.) hth, ken -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.