How to copy file? but it still preserve old modify date.

[natis]

How to copy file? but it still preserve old modify date. Please, suggest me.

[Rob Leadbeater]

Maybe "cp -p "

Cheers,

Rob

[Oviwan]

Hey

check man cp:
-p (preserve permissions) Causes cp to preserve in the copy as
many of the modification time, access time, file mode, user
ID, and group ID as allowed by permissions.


$cp -p yourfile

Regards

[Dennis Handly]

If you have lots of files, you can use tar to save this info. If you aren't root, you can use tar -p when you extract to try to keep the original modes and ownership. (Similar to cp -p that Rob and Oviwan mentioned.)

[Pete Randall]

Most any of the commands used to copy files (cp, rcp, scp, cpio and all the others) have a -p switch which can be used to preserve "permissions", as in time stamps. A quick check of the man pages for your command of choice should give you your answer.


Pete

[TwoProc]

For moving things from server to server, or file system to file system, and keeping everything the same(time, ownership, permissions), my favorite tool is tar. If you must, for some reason, move special files (e.g. /dev/dsk/c0t1d02), then my favorite tool is cpio.

[Sp4admin]

You should beable to use "cp -pR".

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