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From: phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Modifying files while retaining file modification times
Message-ID: <DrPHILLIPS.91May14164801@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: 14 May 91 20:48:01 GMT
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Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
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I want to do something to a file, say encrypt it, without changing its
modification time.  I suppose I can write a script to get the time
from ls, do the modification, then restore the time (after converting
it to numerical format) with /usr/5bin/touch, but I'm hoping that
there is an easier way.  How about it?  (Csh solutions preferred.)
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                                           Lee Phillips
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