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Re: how to use tar



Hi David,

* On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:35:15PM -0500 David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
 
> 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.

Ah, yes. Anyway, I thought about a solution for a shell skript like
this:

> Another cool little option for a shell script is:
> touch -r $file $file.atime

This is a very good idea!

Thank you,
   Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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