On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their date/timestamps? > Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all files touched, > which causes mutt to lose track of the folders which have new mail (I guess it > looks at the timestamp last modified and last accessed to figure this out). > Occasionally I do want to include the mail folders in my greps, so bypassing > the "mail" directory is not a solution.
I doubt it. The point of the timestamps are to be accurate. However, you
might
be able to hack the inode afterwards, not that I'd recommend it.
Mike
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