On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:24:41PM EST, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > * On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:46:02PM +0100 Michael Tatge wrote: > > tell tar to not modify atime. tar --atime-preserve > > > > HTH, > > Just tested it, it works as expected. Thank you. > > Anyway, just out of curiosity: If there would not be that option for > tar, how could I achieve this? The basic idea is to stat(2) the file and store its atime and mtime. Then, you do whatever you want (which may modify the atime and/or mtime), and then utime(2) to restore the atime and/or mtime from memory. Another cool little option for a shell script is: touch -r $file $file.atime do_stuff $file touch -r $file.atime $file rm -f $file.atime Enjoy, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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