https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-tru64-unix/ftp/m-p/4241714#M4143 Is it possible when transferring a file (VIA FTP) to retain the original files date/time stamp when transferred to the target server?.<BR /> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:53:25 GMT rick agostino 2008-07-28T22:53:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-tru64-unix/ftp/m-p/4241714#M4143 Is it possible when transferring a file (VIA FTP) to retain the original files date/time stamp when transferred to the target server?.<BR /> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:53:25 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-tru64-unix/ftp/m-p/4241714#M4143 rick agostino 2008-07-28T22:53:25Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-tru64-unix/ftp/m-p/4241715#M4144 Not with a typical FTP client program. The<BR />old standard FTP does not handle such meta<BR />data. I think that the RFC has been extended<BR />to deal with this, but finding servers and<BR />clients which can use the protocol extensions<BR />may be difficult.<BR /><BR />If you're fetching files, wget can try to<BR />request and interpret a remote directory<BR />listing, extract the date-time info, and set<BR />the date-time on the fetched file(s).<BR />Results may vary, because of the lameness<BR />inherent in a UNIX "ls -l" report.<BR /><BR />I don't use it, but I suspect that cURL can<BR />do it, too.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html</A><BR /><A href="http://curl.haxx.se/" target="_blank">http://curl.haxx.se/</A> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:41:32 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-tru64-unix/ftp/m-p/4241715#M4144 Steven Schweda 2008-07-28T23:41:32Z