On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:29 -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > > If you know a gunzip option that will NOT delete the compresed file, > > > that would be the prefered method. > > > > cat file.gz | gunzip > file > > That's not a gunzip option -- that's (almost) exactly what I'm doing in the > program that I'm looking for an alternative for.
And as you stated the gunzip option "-c" that preserves the original .gz file, does not restore the timestamp of the uncompressed file. What you want doesn't seem to be able to be done with a single command. I'd say the only option is to copy the .gz file while preserving its timestamp then uncompress and move the backup copy back into place. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
